This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Psychology > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 24 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following best describes a neutral stimulus? A) Stimulus that has been learned. B) Stimulus that causes an automatic response. C) Stimulus that is conditioned. D) Stimulus that does not cause a response. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stimulus that does not cause a response. 2. If a researcher wants to determine if there is a relationship between people buying ice cream and sunscreen, what measure would they use to investigate it. A) Naturalistic observation. B) Case study. C) Structured interview. D) Correlation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Correlation. 3. Which of the following is the best example of a learning predisposition (Preparedness)? A) It is easier to condition a person to be fearful of rats than of cars. B) A chimpanzee suddenly realizes it can use a stick to retrieve an out-of-reach banana. C) Cats become quicker at escaping out of boxes with practice. D) Pigeons can be trained to play tic-tac-toe. E) Rewarding a person for a behavior leads to an increase in that behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is easier to condition a person to be fearful of rats than of cars. 4. Which part of the brain is most closely associated with classical conditioning? A) Hippocampus. B) Frontal lobe. C) Cerebellum. D) Amygdala. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebellum. 5. Positive and negative punishment are debated for their ..... A) Origin. B) Frequency. C) Effectiveness. D) Duration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Effectiveness. 6. What type of conditioning involves either providing or taking away a stimulus after an organism responds and then watching to see if the organism repeats that response? A) Positive reinforcement. B) Classical conditioning. C) Negative reinforcement. D) Operant conditioning. E) Secondary reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Operant conditioning. 7. The most common way that people forget information is called ..... This is where enough time passes so unused information is pushed out. A) Decay. B) Relearning. C) Recall. D) Repression. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decay. 8. What psychologist is created the Law of effect? A) Thorndike. B) Bandura. C) Freud. D) Skinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thorndike. 9. Mentally working through a problem until the sudden realization of the solution occurs is referred to as A) Shaping. B) Insight learning. C) Latent learning. D) Trial and error learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Insight learning. 10. What is the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses? A) Stimulus Discrimination. B) Stimulus Generalization. C) Extinction. D) Application. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stimulus Generalization. 11. The unlearned, naturally occurring response to a natural, untrained stimulus A) Conditioned response. B) Neutral stimulus. C) Unconditioned stimulus. D) Unconditioned response. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unconditioned response. 12. Definition of Phobia: A) An unlearned fear. B) An irrational fear. C) A realistic fear. D) A learned fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An irrational fear. 13. Meritocracy is the understanding that A) Education is good for the economy. B) Education shouldn't be just for the privileged. C) Schools could teach children morals that their parents or caregivers were lacking. D) Good citizens aren't born. They need to be created/. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Education shouldn't be just for the privileged. 14. What is the term used to describe the process of learning by watching others without direct reinforcement or punishment? A) Imitative learning. B) Observational learning. C) Vicarious learning. D) Passive learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Observational learning. 15. What did Robert Ader and Nicholas Cohen discover about conditioning? A) It can suppress the immune system. B) It is not applicable to humans. C) It only affects behavior. D) It only works with positive stimuli. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It can suppress the immune system. 16. In operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response at unpredictable time intervals. A) Variable-interval schedule. B) Fixed-interval schedule. C) Fixed-ration schedule. D) Variable-ration schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Variable-interval schedule. 17. Through direct experience with animals, small children come to anticipate that dogs will bark and that birds will chirp. This best illustrates what psychological learning concept? A) Associative learning. B) Law of effect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Associative learning. 18. Mr. Mohan wants to use qualitative research to discover why students are slacking off in their homework. Which of the following measures is he likely to use to obtain information about this problem? A) Correlational research. B) Experimental research. C) Ethnographic study. D) Observation with statistical analysis of the data. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethnographic study. 19. According to Skinner, language is learned through: A) Reinforcement and imitation. B) Innate ability. C) Unconscious drives. D) Moral reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reinforcement and imitation. 20. When our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence is know as A) Behavorism. B) Learning. C) Habituation. D) Association. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Association. 21. What happens during the extinction of a conditioned response? A) The organism becomes immune to the stimulus. B) The response becomes stronger. C) The learned connection is gradually weakened. D) The original stimulus is removed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The learned connection is gradually weakened. 22. Vicente tries oysters and becomes very ill. Now even the thought of oysters makes him nauseous. What is the unconditioned stimulus? A) Throwing up. B) Oysters. C) Bad oysters. D) Sick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Throwing up. 23. Which psychologist is most associated with operant conditioning? A) John Watson. B) B.F. Skinner. C) Ivan Pavlov. D) Albert Bandura. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B.F. Skinner. 24. What role does aptitude play in language learning? A) It determines a student's academic success in all subjects. B) It affects the speed and ease of learning a new language. C) It limits a student's ability to learn a language. D) It is irrelevant to language acquisition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It affects the speed and ease of learning a new language. 25. Psychologist that identified 7 types of intelligence A) Gardner. B) Spearman. C) Sternberg. D) Cattell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gardner. 26. Irritable o Desagradable A) Control. B) Elogio. C) Aversivo. D) Desagrado. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aversivo. 27. Professional basketball player signs contract that is renegotiated every other season. A) Variable ratio. B) Fixed interval. C) Fixed ratio. D) Variable interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fixed interval. 28. What is "negative punishment" in psychology? A) Weakening a behavior by removing a desirable stimulus as a consequence of the behavior. B) Strengthening a behavior by removing a desirable stimulus as a consequence of the behavior. C) Weakening a behavior by adding a desirable stimulus as a consequence of the behavior. D) Strengthening a behavior by adding an undesirable stimulus as a consequence of the behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weakening a behavior by removing a desirable stimulus as a consequence of the behavior. 29. Which of the following is the best shows discrimination? A) Being afraid of all dogs because one bit you when you were young. B) Disliking only the dog that bit you. C) Running at the sight of any dog. D) Getting over your fear of dogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disliking only the dog that bit you. 30. 6 Who are the behaviours of association learning therorists? A) Bandura and Walter. B) Kohler and Kofka. C) Watson and Pavlov. D) Piaget and Vygotsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Watson and Pavlov. 31. 15 What is the learning process of social constructionist theorist? A) Priniciple of more knowledge. B) Priniciple of smilarity. C) Principle of active responding. D) Prniciple of zones of proximal development. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Priniciple of smilarity. 32. Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.In classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus (US), comes to trigger a conditioned response (CR). A) Unconditioned Response (UR). B) Unconditioned Stimulus (US). C) Neutral Stimulus (NS). D) Conditioned Stimulus (CS). E) Conditioned response (CR). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conditioned Stimulus (CS). 33. What is the easiest sense to condition in people? A) Touch. B) Taste. C) Sight. D) Hearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taste. 34. Delay in delivery of reinforcement leads to ..... level of performance A) Ineffective. B) Better. C) Improved. D) Poorer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poorer. 35. Individuals who believe that an unpleasant experience is unavoidable and therefore do nothing to change the course of events are exhibiting A) Self-actualization attributes. B) Attributional deficits. C) Self-actualization attributes. D) Cognitive dissonance. E) Learned helplessness. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Learned helplessness. 36. What is Motivation? A) The process of arousing action, sustaining activity in progress and regulatingpatterns of activity. B) An enduring evaluation-positive ornegative of people, objects and ideas'. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The process of arousing action, sustaining activity in progress and regulatingpatterns of activity. 37. After a car accident, Tim is nervous every time he passes by the accident site. His anxiety lessens each time he passes by without incident. What process explains this reduction in anxiety? A) Extinction. B) Acquisition. C) Sensitization. D) Habituation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extinction. 38. The first people power was held in February 25, 1986. What kind of knowledge is presented? A) Domain-Specific Knowledge. B) Procedural Knowledge. C) Cognitive Knowledge. D) Conditional Knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cognitive Knowledge. 39. Playing a slot machine would be an example of what type of reinforcement schedule: A) Fixed interval. B) Fixed ratio. C) Variable ratio. D) Variable interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Variable ratio. 40. What is Learning? A) Top-down process where we attach meaning to describe an environmental stimuli. B) Learning is defined as a permanent change in behavior or knowledge that occurs as a result of experience. C) How information is transferred from the spinal cord to the brain. D) Bottom-Up process in which sensory data is collected. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Learning is defined as a permanent change in behavior or knowledge that occurs as a result of experience. 41. Michael noticed that whenever he moved his dog's food dish, his dog would come into the kitchen and act hungry and excited. He reasoned that because he feeds the dog using that dish, the sound of the dish had become a(n) A) Unconditioned stimulus. B) Conditioned stimulus. C) Unconditioned response. D) Conditioned response. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conditioned stimulus. 42. According to psychodynamic theories, what is key to understanding human behavior and relationships? A) Unlocking the unconscious mind. B) Improving social skills. C) Unlocking the conscious mind. D) Enhancing physical health. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unlocking the unconscious mind. 43. Frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so. May enable imitation and empathy. A) Motor neurons. B) Mirror neurons. C) Interneurons. D) Sensory neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mirror neurons. 44. During his experiments with dogs, the unconditioned response in Pavlov's experiment was ..... A) Salivation. B) No salivation. C) Having food in the dog's mouth. D) A ringing tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Salivation. 45. Getting a free Subway sandwich on your 5th purchase is an example of what? A) Fixed interval. B) Fixed-Ratio. C) Variable Interval. D) Variable Ratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fixed-Ratio. 46. The serial position effect occurs when people A) Remember things they learn first better than things they learn last. B) Remember the first and last things in a list the best. C) Remember the last things in a list the best. D) Remember the first things in a list the best. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Remember the first and last things in a list the best. 47. Responses extinguish fastest when they are learned through which type of reinforcement schedule? A) Continuous. B) Variable-interval. C) Variable-ratio. D) Negative. E) Fixed-interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Continuous. 48. A father is frustrated because his 3-year-old daughter has started to spit frequently. He has decided to temporarily put one of her toys away each time she spits. He is going to continue doing this until she has stopped spitting. His plan uses A) Positive punishment. B) Negative reinforcement. C) Negative punishment. D) Positive reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negative punishment. 49. Dogs stood on an electrified floor. Group 1 was shocked and jumped to a safe spot. Group 2 was shocked but chained and unable to jump. Even when later unchained, group 2 dogs did not try and leave the electrified floor. A) Denial. B) Learned helplessness. C) Avoidance learning. D) Escapism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Learned helplessness. 50. The teacher praised Mary for her good manners when she said thank you when she gave her the pencil she asked for publicly, as a result, all the other students in the class decided to say 'thank you' when the teacher gave them the pencil. This is called what type of reinforcement in social learning. A) Direct reinforcement. B) Vicarious Reinforcement. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vicarious Reinforcement. 51. You want your dog to sit. Every time the dog sits, you give her a treat. You are practicing A) Negative punishment. B) Negative reinforcement. C) Positive reinforcement. D) Positive punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive reinforcement. 52. Receiving 15 minutes Youtube time after finishing reading every two chapters of a novel is an example of a ..... schedule of reinforcement. A) Variable ratio. B) Fixed interval. C) Variable interval. D) Fixed ratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fixed ratio. 53. Who did the rat and maze study? A) John B. Watson. B) Ivan Pavlov. C) Edward Tolman. D) B.F. Skinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edward Tolman. 54. What type of learning is associated with this:a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events? A) Classical Conditioning. B) Associative Learning. C) Cognitive Learning. D) Learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Classical Conditioning. 55. A reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses A) Variable-interval Schedule. B) Fixed-ratio Schedule. C) Fixed-interval Schedule. D) Variable-ratio Schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fixed-ratio Schedule. 56. A researcher wants to investigate which conditioned responses are developed by children who grow up in extremely stressful homes. Which of the following research methods would the researcher need to use? A) Experiment. B) Survey. C) Correlation. D) Case study. E) Random assignment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Case study. 57. Which of the following is a type of therapy for alcoholism that involves the administration of a drug that will induce nausea after a person consumes alcohol? A) Instrumental. B) Flooding. C) Implosive. D) Rational-Emotive Behavioral. E) Aversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Aversion. 58. Psychologists E.C. Toleman did experiments on rats that showed: A) The success of Skinner's box. B) How classical conditioning works. C) That reinforcement is not always necessary for learning. D) The effectiveness of negative reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That reinforcement is not always necessary for learning. 59. An involuntary and unlearned response to a naturally occurring or unconditioned stimulus. In Pavlov's dogs, the salivation to the food. A) Unconditioned Response. B) Conditioned Stimulus. C) Neutral Stimulus. D) Conditioned Response. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unconditioned Response. 60. What does operant conditioning deal with A) US, UCR, CS, CR. B) Modeling and vicarious learning. C) Learned helplessness. D) Reinforcement and punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reinforcement and 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