Test 1

Learning Theory
Fall 2005

Answer the following questions by 5:00 p.m. September 14, 2005. Please bring your answers to class, typed (word processed) and doublespaced. Use your text, class notes, and any outside reading necessary. Strict rules concerning plagiarism (see below) will apply. So, be sure to reference appropriately.

1. What are the two definitions of learning? Apply them to habituation, classical conditioning, and escape conditioning.

2. Show how Mjøset's four types of social science theories would study the sexual assaults at the military academies. In other words, show how the four approaches would each approach gathering data about those sexual assaults.

3. Briefly trace the history of psychology from Wundt to Watson.

4. Who was Thomas Kuhn? Why was his book, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, so successful? (See pp. 25-26 and http://Act9.saumag.edu/Faculty/kardas/courses/RMI/Modules/Module%20III/Kuhn'%20view%20of%20Science.html

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http://peace.saumag.edu/faculty/kardas/rmbook/Kuhn.html

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Martin (1994) provides an analysis of plagiarism that classifies plagiarism into categories:
1) word-for-word plagiarism,
2) paraphrasing plagiarism,
3) plagiarism of secondary sources,
4) plagiarism of ideas, and
5) institutional plagiarism This last type includes ghostwriting and honorary scholarship (i.e., the type of conduct covered by Standard 8.12 (b)).
Students who plagiarize usually do so by word-for-word plagiarism, paraphrasing plagiarism, plagiarism of secondary sources, and plagiarism of ideas. You can prevent these types of plagiarism in your work by knowing that they are wrong and actively avoiding them.