Cognitive Psychologists Are a Subgroup of Experimental Psychologists Who Are

question 42

Multiple Choice

Cognitive psychologists are a subgroup of experimental psychologists who are concerned primarily with:

• A)neurobiological events that underlie behaviour.
• B)the function of age on behaviour.
• C)mental events that intervene between stimuli and responses.
• D)how people are affected by social situations.

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Definitions:

Natural Selection

The principle that inherited traits that better enable an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment will (in competition with other trait variations) most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.

Conditioned Reinforcers

Stimuli that acquire their reinforcing power through their association with primary reinforcers.

Biological Constraints

Limitations on learning that result from the genetic and biological makeup of each organism.

Pigeon

A bird of the family Columbidae, known for its distinctive cooing sound and often associated with peace or as a common urban wildlife species.