This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Psychology > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In Gustav Fechner's experiment, he is most likely investigating: A) The impact of cultural factors on psychological perceptions. B) The connection between brain anatomy and sensory experiences. C) The correlation between physical stimuli and psychological sensations. D) The role of genetics in shaping individual differences in perception. E) The influence of emotions on cognitive processes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The correlation between physical stimuli and psychological sensations. 2. Any event that strengthens the behavior that precedes it A) Reinforcer. B) Unconditioned stimulus. C) Punishment. D) Neutral stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reinforcer. 3. What is Ivan Pavlov famous for? A) Classical conditioning. B) Taste aversion. C) Bobo doll experiment. D) Operant conditioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Classical conditioning. 4. Which is the initial stage of learning? A) Acquisition. B) Spontaneous recovery. C) Renewal effect. D) Extinction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acquisition. 5. In Pavlov's experiment, what was the unconditioned stimulus? A) Food. B) Bell. C) Salivating at food. D) Salivating at bell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food. 6. Which is the easiest of the three basic memory tasks? A) Recall. B) Recognition. C) Relearning. D) Chunking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recognition. 7. Define short-term memory A) Holds so many chunks of information before it has to be stored more permanently or forgotten. B) The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory. C) A vivid clear memory. D) Organizing infornation into meaningful units. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Holds so many chunks of information before it has to be stored more permanently or forgotten. 8. Pavlov's initial interest in classical conditioning was stimulated when he observed his research dogs salivating at the sight of A) Saliva. B) Food. C) The attendants / sound of the bell. D) The food dish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The attendants / sound of the bell. 9. Who of the following was not a Gestalt Psychologist? A) Wolfgang Kohler. B) Martin Seligman. C) Sigmund Freund. D) Edward Tolman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sigmund Freund. 10. What is the scope of Psychology? A) It is focused on understanding the human mind. B) It is limited to the study of human behavior. C) It is concerned with controlling the behavior of the organism as a whole. D) It includes the study of behavior in relation to the environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It includes the study of behavior in relation to the environment. 11. A student imitates the way their friend solves a math problem. This is an example of: A) Operant Conditioning. B) Classical Conditioning. C) Extinction. D) Observational Learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Observational Learning. 12. Impulsive learners are described as being: A) Slow but accurate. B) Careful and analytical. C) Fast but less accurate. D) Highly motivated by understanding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fast but less accurate. 13. Whenever Maria hears the doorbell ring, she immediately expects her food delivery, since this has happened several times before. What is this example of pairing stimuli called? A) Habituation process. B) Conditioning trial. C) Reflex trial. D) Sensitization trial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conditioning trial. 14. What is punishment? A) Any unpleasant stimulus. B) Anything that the subject will work to avoid. C) Anything that decreases the frequency of a behavior. D) Anything that the subject dislikes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anything that decreases the frequency of a behavior. 15. Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors. A) Associative learning. B) Learning. C) Habituation. D) Cognitive Learning. E) Stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Learning. 16. An event that elicits a certain predictable response typically without previous training A) Neutral stimulus. B) Unconditioned stimulus (UCS). C) Unconditioned response (UCR). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unconditioned stimulus (UCS). 17. What is the term for the ability to control one's own behavior and impulses? A) Self-control. B) Emotion-focused coping. C) Internal locus of control. D) Problem-focused coping. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-control. 18. What is the role of learning in survival according to the text? A) To avoid predators. B) To migrate to safer areas. C) To anticipate the future and control the environment. D) To find food and shelter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To anticipate the future and control the environment. 19. My dog, Rosie, is afraid of my keys because they fell on her head and made a loud noise that scared her when I dropped them. My keys shouldn't make her afraid but now she cowers in fear when she sees them. My keys are the A) Conditioned stimulus. B) Unconditioned stimulus. C) Unconditioned response. D) Conditioned response. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conditioned stimulus. 20. According to Watson, what is the focus of behaviorism? A) Genetic inheritance. B) Unconscious motivations. C) Observable behavior. D) Internal thoughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Observable behavior. 21. Donnie suffers for social anxiety. In group therapy, he watches as his therapist and other clients give rehearsed speeches to the group. His therapist believes that this modeling will help Donnie and others who suffer from social anxiety to overcome this issue. The therapist's ideas are most closely associated with the tenets of ..... A) Operant conditioning. B) Social learning. C) Immediate conditioning. D) Classical conditioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Social learning. 22. When Tito was young, his parents decided to give him a quarter every day he made his bed. Tito started to make his siblings' beds also and help with other chores. Behaviorists would say that Tito was experiencing A) Discrimination. B) Generalization. C) Spontaneous recovery. D) Acquisition. E) Internal motivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Generalization. 23. Which of the following best describes learner differences in a language classroom? A) Uniform teaching approaches. B) Diverse cognitive abilities and learning strategies. C) Similar cultural backgrounds. D) Consistent language proficiency levels. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diverse cognitive abilities and learning strategies. 24. Which brain cells are believed to play a role in observational learning? A) Interneurons. B) Mirror neurons. C) Sensory neurons. D) Motor neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mirror neurons. 25. Negative reinforcement is exemplified by which of the following? A) Getting money for bad behavior. B) Losing a toy for bad behavior. C) Getting money for good behavior. D) A child avoiding punishment when it lies about its behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A child avoiding punishment when it lies about its behavior. 26. What best describes a fixed mindset? A) Intelligence is fluid. B) Intelligence can be changed. C) If you are bad at math, you can work on it and become better. D) If you are bad at science, you will always be bad at science. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) If you are bad at science, you will always be bad at science. 27. A person eats to eliminate the feeling of hunger. This is an example of a/an ..... A) Conditioned reinforcer. B) Primary reinforcer. C) Secondary reinforcer. D) Delayed reinforcer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Primary reinforcer. 28. Studies of learning have shown that animals develop an aversion for tastes associated with A) Electric shock. B) Starvation. C) Novel stimuli. D) Extinguished associations. E) Sickness. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Sickness. 29. Describes how often and under what conditions a behavior is reinforced A) Insight learning. B) Negative punishment. C) Acquisition. D) Reinforcement schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reinforcement schedule. 30. Who developed the social learning theory, emphasizing observational learning? A) Edward Thorndike. B) Albert Bandura. C) Ivan Pavlov. D) John B. Watson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Albert Bandura. 31. What is the term for the diminishing of a conditioned response when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus? A) Generalization. B) Discrimination. C) Spontaneous recovery. D) Extinction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extinction. 32. In Pavlov's experiment, the dog salivated to the presentation of the meat. In this case, the salivating is a(n) A) UCR. B) CR. C) CS. D) UCS. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) UCR. 33. Which of the following is TRUE regarding intuition? A) Intuition is explicit. B) Intuition is adaptive. C) Intuitive judgments take a long time. D) Intuition has minimal effects on judgment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intuition is adaptive. 34. Who proposed the idea that 'cells that fire together wire together' in the context of neural connections? A) Lashley. B) Skinner. C) Hebb. D) Pavlov. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hebb. 35. Discrimination in classical conditioning refers to: A) Responding only to the specific conditioned stimulus. B) Forgetting the learned behavior. C) Ignoring the conditioned stimulus. D) Responding to similar stimuli. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Responding only to the specific conditioned stimulus. 36. Jane would be the first person in her family to graduate from college. Her parents were so happy they promised her a new car if she was able to do so. This is an example of ..... A) Positive Punishment. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Negative Punishment. D) Positive Reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Positive Reinforcement. 37. Imagine Luna teaches Oliver a cool dance move. The more Luna cheers every time Oliver does it, the more likely he is to repeat it! What is this process called, where a stimulus increases the chances of a preceding behavior happening again? A) Extinction. B) Systematic autosensitization. C) Reinforcement. D) Flooding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reinforcement. 38. Learned Optimism is ..... A) The process of recognizing and challenging pessimistic thoughts in order to develop more positive behaviors. B) Teaching/empowering students with the ability to balance out negative and positive things in situations. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The process of recognizing and challenging pessimistic thoughts in order to develop more positive behaviors. 39. The removal of a positive stimulus after a response, leading to a decrease in behavior A) Negative punishment. B) Positive reinforcement. C) Operant conditioning. D) Learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negative punishment. 40. Psychologist that breaks intelligence into the categories of Crystallized and Fluid A) Sternberg. B) Cattell. C) Gardner. D) Spearman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cattell. 41. One of the most common current psychological therapies combines principles of behaviorism (like positive reinforcement) with talk therapy that focuses on how clients interpret past events and the actions of others. What is this approach to treatment called? A) Rational Emotive Treatment. B) Behavioral psychotherapy. C) Cognitive-behavioral therapy. D) Humanistic behavioral therapy. E) Reciprocal determinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cognitive-behavioral therapy. 42. ..... are mental representations or concepts. A) Schemas. B) Scenes. C) Theories. D) Adaptation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Schemas. 43. What is connectionism in the context of behaviorist theories? A) Forming stimulus-response connections. B) Learning through observation and imitation. C) Encoding information into long-term memory. D) Developing abstract reasoning skills. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forming stimulus-response connections. 44. Learning that occurs by watching others. Also called social learning. A) Modelling. B) Shaping. C) Observational learning. D) Insight learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Observational learning. 45. Which of the following would be considered a secondary reinforcer? A) Money. B) Food. C) Water. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Money. 46. According to the text, learning involves A) The development of prosocial behavior. B) The ability to think abstractly. C) A reduction in extrinsic motiviation. D) A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience. 47. When shaping a behavior, you would couple a treat with, "good dog" to get your pet to sit. The "good dog" is considered ..... A) Negative Reinforcement. B) Primary Reinforcer. C) Secondary Reinforcer. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Secondary Reinforcer. 48. Identify:Any stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens the response A) Positive Punishment. B) Negative Punishment. C) Negative Reinforcement. D) Positive Reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Positive Reinforcement. 49. If a response has experienced generalization, that means the person or animal responds to similar objects in the same way. Example:The dog drools at the sight of an oval and a circle. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 50. What ethical principle was violated in Seligman's learned helplessness experiment? A) Confidentiality. B) Debriefing. C) Protection from harm. D) Right to withdraw. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protection from harm. 51. Who did the rat maze? A) Wolfgang Kohler. B) Martin Seligman. C) Edward Tolman. D) Albert Bandura. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edward Tolman. 52. In classical conditioning, the unlearned naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus such as salivation when food is put into the mouth. A) Conditioned response (CR). B) Unconditioned response (UR). C) Unconditioned stimulus (US). D) Conditioned stimulus (CS). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unconditioned response (UR). 53. Action research begins with ..... A) An Inquiry Question. B) A survey. C) Pre-testing students to determine their prior knowledge. D) Choosing a strategy to research. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An Inquiry Question. 54. When you have learned something after the fact it is called? A) Reinforcement. B) High order conditioning. C) Insight. D) Latent learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Latent learning. 55. The excellent key failure leads to success means A) Pay attention. B) Take responsibility for what you say and do. C) Learn from mistakes. D) Focus on what's important. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Learn from mistakes. 56. The unconditioned stimulus in the Pavlov case would be the dog. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 57. Pada tahun berapa Thorndike mengakui bahwa terdapat kekeliruan pada teorinya ..... A) 1931. B) 1942. C) 1933. D) 1929. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1929. 58. What are the 3 primary areas of focus in child development? A) Cognitive, socioemotional, and behavior genetics. B) Physical, cognitive, and socioemotional. C) Physical, cognitive, and cultural. D) Socioemotional, behavior genetics, and cultural. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physical, cognitive, and socioemotional. 59. Learned helplessness is most likely to result when A) Responses have no effect on the environment. B) Young organisms fail to imprint at the critical period. C) Reinforcement occurs on an intermittent schedule. D) An organism receives negative reinforcement. E) A response is reinforced independently. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Responses have no effect on the environment. 60. Whose name is synonymous with Operant Conditioning? A) Pavlov. B) Watson. C) Skinner. D) Thorndike. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skinner. 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