Which philosopher is most closely associated with the view that the mind begins as a blank slate and gains ideas through experience?
John Locke
John Locke is closely associated with the blank-slate view. In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, he rejected innate ideas and explained ideas as arising from sensation and reflection. Earlier philosophers had related ideas, so he should not be described as the first person ever to propose a blank mind.
Important Questions from Principles and theories of learning - Teaching
Who of the following developed the concept of Behaviour shaping through the use of principle of successive approximation?
Strengths of "Behaviourism" as learning theory are:
(a) It provides clear predictions
(b) It has real life application
(c) It is too deterministic
(d) It has reductionist approach
(e) It emphasizes objective measurement
Choose the answer from the following options:
Which of the following subordinate laws in Thorndike's Theory of learning is equivalent to Watson or Pavlov's Classical Conditioning Theory?
In Hull’s ‘re-inforcement theory’ which of the following was postulated as intervening variable ?
Match the operant learning procedures in List I with their paradigms in List II.
List I
(a) Discriminated omission
(b) Discriminated punishment
(c) Positively reinforced discriminated operant
(d) Active avoidanceList II
(i) Cue present → Response made → Reward delivered
(ii) Warning cue present → Response made → Aversive event prevented
(iii) Cue present → Target response withheld → Reward delivered
(iv) Cue present → Response made → Aversive consequence delivered
