This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Psychology > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In Pavlov's experiment, the ..... was the conditioned stimulus. A) Salivation from bell. B) Meat powder. C) Bell. D) Salivation from meat powder. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bell. 2. According to SQ3R method, ..... can retrain your mind to concentrate and learn as you read. A) Survey. B) Recite. C) Question. D) Review. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recite. 3. After just being introduced to another guest in the party, Tom cannot remember the name of the guest he was introduced to. In what memory stage was the information stored in? A) Episodic memory. B) Sensory memory. C) Semantic memory. D) Working memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sensory memory. 4. What is this subject's correct name? A) Sports Psychology. B) Exercise Psychology. C) Exercise and Sports Psychology. D) Sports and Exercise Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exercise and Sports Psychology. 5. The technique of strengthening behavior by reinforcing successive approximations is called A) Positive reinforcement. B) Shaping. C) Distributed practice. D) Modeling. E) Negative reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shaping. 6. Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.In classical conditioning, a learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS). A) Unconditioned Response (UR). B) Unconditioned Stimulus (US). C) Conditioned response (CR). D) Conditioned Stimulus (CS). E) Neutral Stimulus (NS). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conditioned response (CR). 7. Waiting to hear your favorite song on your favorite radio station is most likely to be reinforced on a ..... schedule. A) Variable-interval. B) Variable-ratio. C) Fixed-ratio. D) Fixed-interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Variable-interval. 8. The best synonym for conditioning is ..... A) Forgetting. B) Flooding. C) Responding. D) Learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Learning. 9. Brian ate a tuna salad sandwich that had become tainted from being in the sun too long. Not long after eating, Brian became extremely nauseated and felt awful. After that, even the sight of a tuna sandwich caused Brian to feel nauseated. In this scenario, what is the conditioned response (CR)? A) Tuna. B) Nausea. C) Mayo. D) Sight of any sandwich. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nausea. 10. The process of changing patterns of human behavior over the long term using various motivational techniques, mainly consequences (negative reinforcement) and rewards (positive reinforcement). The ultimate goal is to swap objectionable, problematic, or disagreeable behaviors with more positive, desirable behaviors. A) Classical conditioning. B) Behavior modification. C) Modeling. D) Acquisition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Behavior modification. 11. Buying lottery ticket is reinforced on a ..... schedule. A) Variable ratio. B) Variable interval. C) Fixed ratio. D) Fixed interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Variable ratio. 12. ..... developed their theory of classical conditioning after being able to make dogs drool at the sound of a bell. A) Skinner. B) Bandura. C) Watson. D) Pavlov. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pavlov. 13. What is the acquisition of mental information by observing people or events or through language? A) Latent Learning. B) Classical Conditioning. C) Cognitive Learning. D) Operant Conditioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cognitive Learning. 14. 14 Law of exercise is related with A) Classical conditioning. B) Operant conditioning. C) Trial and Error. D) Insightfull learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trial and Error. 15. A student receives a star every five completed assignments. This is an example of: A) Variable interval. B) Variable ratio. C) Fixed ratio. D) Fixed interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fixed ratio. 16. Building rapport with students primarily involves: A) Establishing authority and maintaining strict discipline. B) Creating an elitist environment. C) Building trust and encouraging open communication. D) Minimizing personal interactions to maintain formality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Building trust and encouraging open communication. 17. An organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it is known as ..... A) Associative learning. B) Acquisition. C) Habituation. D) Cognitive learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Habituation. 18. Emily had a frightening encounter with a spider in her room. Now she's afraid of all spiders, especially those that look like the one she encountered. What explains her response? A) Sensory preconditioning. B) Blocking. C) Stimulus generalization. D) Habituation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stimulus generalization. 19. In Pavlov's experiment, the ..... was the conditioned response. A) Bell. B) Salivation from bell. C) Salivation from meat powder. D) Meat powder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salivation from bell. 20. Identify:This scientist who discovered classical conditioning in the 1890s, led to the theory that people can associate two stimuli and react to one as if it were the other. A) Edward Thorndyke. B) John B Watson. C) B.F. Skinner. D) Ivan Pavlov. E) Albert Bandura. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ivan Pavlov. 21. A stimulus that unconditionally-naturally and automatically-triggers a response. A) Conditioned Stimulus. B) Unconditioned Response. C) Unconditioned Stimulus. D) Conditioned Response. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unconditioned Stimulus. 22. When new info takes the place of old info in Short Term Memory A) Chunking. B) Encoding. C) Interference. D) Storage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interference. 23. Who is known for the experiment with Baby Albert to demonstrate classical conditioning on a human? A) Ivan Pavlov. B) B.F. Skinner. C) John B. Watson. D) Neal Miller. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John B. Watson. 24. You could receive a text message at any random time. When you check your phone, you are reinforced on a ..... schedule of reinforcement A) Variable interval. B) Fixed interval. C) Fixed ratio. D) Variable ratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Variable interval. 25. Neutral stimulus is? A) A stimulus that does not naturally cause a response in the organism. B) A response that takes place in an organism whenever an unconditioned stimulus occurs. C) An originally neutral stimulus that begins to cause the same kind of involuntary response when paired with the unconditioned stimulus. D) Response that is given to the unconditioned stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A stimulus that does not naturally cause a response in the organism. 26. The reappearance after a pause of an extinguished conditioned response. A) Acquisition. B) Spontaneous recovery. C) Extinction. D) Discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spontaneous recovery. 27. Imagine Evelyn, Sophia, and Rohan are selling cookies door to door. They get a reward after a random number of doors they ring. What type of reinforcement schedule is this? A) Fixed-ratio. B) Variable-interval. C) Variable-ratio. D) Fixed-interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Variable-ratio. 28. My dad puts on his seatbelt to make his car stop beeping A) Positive reinforcement. B) Unconditioned reinforcement. C) Negative reinforcement. D) Conditioned reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negative reinforcement. 29. Alexa got food poisoning from the food she ate at a local restaurant. Now, every time she sees or hears about the restaurant, she gets nauseous. In terms of classical conditioning, the restaurant is a: A) Unconditioned response. B) Unconditioned stimulus. C) Conditioned response. D) Conditioned stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conditioned stimulus. 30. The terms "modeling" and "imitation" are most closely associated with ..... A) Social Learning Theory. B) Classical Conditioning. C) Hypothesis Testing. D) Gestalt Theory. E) Operant Conditioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social Learning Theory. 31. Which of the following is FALSE regarding decision making? A) We tend to overestimate our judgments. B) We tend to cling to our beliefs despite contradictory evidence. C) We are more confident about successful decisions than unsuccessful decisions. D) We tend to be more confident than correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) We are more confident about successful decisions than unsuccessful decisions. 32. The view that psychology should be objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes. A) Social-cultural. B) Cognitive Psychology. C) Behaviorism. D) Biological school. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Behaviorism. 33. Every single time that James cuts his grandmother's yard he will get a hug and a $ 20 bill. He doesn't have to ever be reminded to show up at granny's house on Saturdays. In this scenario, the behavior illustrates: A) Socioemotional Theory of Maturity. B) The concept of Instinctive Drift. C) Classical Conditioning. D) Thorndike's Law of Effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thorndike's Law of Effect. 34. Which is an example of stimulus generalization? A) Cass got food poisoning after eating a steak. The sight or smell of steak now makes her nauseous. B) The sight of the roller coaster that scared Cass when she was kid causes her to start sweating. C) Cass got food poisoning after eating fried chicken. The sight or smell of all fried foods now makes her nauseous. D) Cass is afraid of her grandmother's cat, who bit her when she was a child. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cass got food poisoning after eating fried chicken. The sight or smell of all fried foods now makes her nauseous. 35. According to William Mcdougall, what is the aim of Psychology? A) To give us better understanding of the human mind. B) To investigate the activities of the individual in relation to his environment. C) To understand and control the behavior of the organism as a whole. D) To study human behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To understand and control the behavior of the organism as a whole. 36. Sometimes organisms begin to respond with the conditioned response to stimuli that are similar to the original conditioned stimulus. Which term below is the opposite of this process? A) Discrimination. B) Overjustification. C) Generalization. D) Structuralism. E) Behaviorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Discrimination. 37. Learning to respond to only one stimulus and to not responsed at all to other stimuli is ..... A) Extinction. B) Generalization. C) Aquisition. D) Discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Discrimination. 38. When an assignment is given out, a student immediately asks if it is worth points. When told that it is not, he crumples the paper up. This is an example of A) Intrinsic Motivation. B) Shaping. C) Modeling. D) Extrinsic Motivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extrinsic Motivation. 39. When a conditioned response stops occurring: A) Systematic desensitization. B) Spontaneous recovery. C) Extinction. D) Conditioned stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extinction. 40. Who conducted the Bobo Doll Experiment? A) Sigmund Freud. B) B. F. Skinner. C) Ivan Pavlov. D) Albert Bandura. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Albert Bandura. 41. Humanistic psychology started in A) 1960s. B) 1950s. C) 1970s. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1950s. 42. Lily had a bad experience at a dentist's office. Now, she feels anxious when she hears a drill, even though it's not the same dentist. This is an example of: A) Stimulus generalization. B) Higher-order conditioning. C) Blocking. D) Stimulus discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stimulus discrimination. 43. 22 Which of following is the characteristics of cognitive learning A) Role of Reinforcement. B) Role of Experience. C) Role of motivation. D) Role of learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Role of Experience. 44. A student receives detention for being late to class. What type of operant conditioning is this? A) Positive punishment. B) Negative reinforcement. C) Positive reinforcement. D) Negative punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive punishment. 45. This is the process of learning associations and connections A) Intrinsic. B) Conditioning. C) Behavior. D) Extrinsic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conditioning. 46. If you believe that intelligence can be developed to any level by anyone with sufficient effort under typical circumstances then you have a A) Fixed mindset. B) Deluded mindset. C) Growth Mindset. D) Positive mindset. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Growth Mindset. 47. Who are the key figures in the development of behaviorism? A) Ivan Pavlov and John B. Watson. B) BF Skinner and Thorndike. C) John B. Watson and BF Skinner. D) Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John B. Watson and BF Skinner. 48. The result of reinforcement is to A) Cause a behaviour to stop. B) Cause a behaviour to diminish. C) Cause a behaviour to occur for only a limited amount of time. D) Cause a behaviour to continue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cause a behaviour to continue. 49. The diminishing of a conditioned response, when the UCS no longer is presented after the CS A) Generalization. B) Extinction. C) Acquistion. D) Spontaneous recovery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extinction. 50. Mary woke up one night with a spider dangling in front of her face. She screamed, and from that point on she could not stand to be near spiders. Mary's fear of spiders is based on A) Operant conditioning. B) Observational learning. C) Classical conditioning. D) A response-outcome association. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Classical conditioning. 51. In operant conditioning, what is shaping? A) Gradually reinforcing behaviors that come closer to the desired behavior. B) A method of punishment. C) The initial learning process. D) A type of cognitive map. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gradually reinforcing behaviors that come closer to the desired behavior. 52. Discuss the importance of social learning in shaping behavior. A) Individuals can only learn from their own experiences. B) Observations and experiences of others are irrelevant in shaping behavior. C) Social learning is important in shaping behavior because it allows individuals to learn from others' experiences and observations. D) Social learning has no impact on behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social learning is important in shaping behavior because it allows individuals to learn from others' experiences and observations. 53. Behaviour shaping is the characteristic features of A) Classical Conditioning. B) Operant conditioning. C) Trial and error learning. D) Insightfull learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Operant conditioning. 54. What is the primary characteristic of instinctual drift? A) Consistently applying learned behaviors. B) Completely forgetting learned behaviors. C) Returning to instinctual behaviors after learning new ones. D) Learning through observation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Returning to instinctual behaviors after learning new ones. 55. A coach yells at a player for missing a free throw. The coach is using: A) Positive reinforcement. B) Positive punishment. C) Negative reinforcement. D) Negative punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive punishment. 56. Identify:A learned response to a previously neutral but now conditioned stimulus (CS) A) Conditioned Response (CR). B) Conditioned Stimulus (CS). C) Neutral Stimulus (NS). D) Unconditioned Response (UR). E) Unconditioned Stimulus (US). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conditioned Response (CR). 57. Each learner is different from each other. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 58. Classical conditioning is when a person or organism links two or more stimuli and A) Shuts down. B) Anticipates an event. C) Lays them out in sequence. D) Forgets about them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anticipates an event. 59. In classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus. A) Extinction. B) Acquisition. C) Spontaneous recovery. D) Discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Discrimination. 60. What type of operant conditioning is where one withdraws a rewarding stimulus? A) Negative reinforcement. B) Positive reinforcement. C) Negative punishment. D) Positive punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negative punishment. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesArts Humanities QuizzesClass 11 QuizzesClass 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 1Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 2Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 3Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 4Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 5Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 6Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 7Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books