This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Psychology > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 25 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An individual's fear of dogs that is lost as the individual is exposed to dogs in nonthreatening situations is referred to by behaviorists as a fear that has been A) Repressed. B) Satiated. C) Extinguished (extinction). D) Punished. E) Suppressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extinguished (extinction). 2. Which is an example of extinction? A) Elijah has stopped raising his hand in class after his teacher stopped rewarding him with candy. B) Elijah's mouth still waters every time he hears the word "Ivan". C) Elijah makes sure he is home on time to avoid losing his car privileges. D) Despite getting PBIS points for being on time, Elijah is still late almost every day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elijah has stopped raising his hand in class after his teacher stopped rewarding him with candy. 3. When an animal receives a punishment but learns that pressing a button will eliminate the punishment, escape learning takes place. However, if there is no response that will turn off the shock, the situation is best described as what? A) Avoidance learning. B) Learned helplessness. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Learned helplessness. 4. The three types of long term memory are: A) Episodic, visual, procedural. B) Episodic, semantic, procedural. C) Recognition, acoustic, episodic. D) Visual, semantic, procedural. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Episodic, semantic, procedural. 5. Your friend hates the shirt you're wearing. Whenever you wear it, your friend insults you and your fashion sense. Aside from being a jerk, your friend is practicing A) Negative reinforcement. B) Negative punishment. C) Positive punishment. D) Positive reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive punishment. 6. ..... involves placing a neutral signal before a reflex. A) Classical. B) Operant. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Classical. 7. How does the concept of 'shaping' contribute to operant conditioning? A) Shaping is the process of learning by observing and imitating the behaviors of others. B) Shaping is the process of learning by trial and error. C) Shaping is the process of learning by direct instruction. D) Shaping is the process of reinforcing successive approximations of a desired behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shaping is the process of reinforcing successive approximations of a desired behavior. 8. A parent adds chores and responsibilities to their child after they fail to follow the rules. The child stops ignoring the rules. A) Positive Punishment. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Negative Punishment. D) Positive Reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive Punishment. 9. What is the term for decreasing responsiveness with repeated exposure to a stimulus? A) Biological predisposition. B) Cognitive map. C) Habituation. D) Instinctive drift. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Habituation. 10. Decrease a behavior from happening again by following it with a negative consequence A) Negative Reinforcement. B) Escape Learning. C) Operant Conditioning. D) Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Punishment. 11. The process by which we recollect prior experiences is called ..... A) Acquisition. B) Habituation. C) Memory. D) Learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Memory. 12. Identify:After an unpredictable number:reinforcement after a random number of behaviors, as when playing slot machines or fly fishing A) Fixed Interval. B) Variable Interval. C) Fixed Ratio. D) Variable Ratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Variable Ratio. 13. Just before something scary happens in a horror film, they often play scary-sounding music. When I hear the music, I tense up in anticipation of the scary event. In this situation, the music serves as a(n) A) US. B) CR. C) CS. D) NR. E) UR. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) CS. 14. The behavior that would be most difficult to extinguish would be the one that was: A) Reinforced every time it occurred. B) Reinforced intermittently. C) Reinforced by your parents. D) Shaped. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reinforced intermittently. 15. Which psychological approach focuses on the study of observable behavior? A) Behaviorism. B) Humanistic psychology. C) Psychoanalysis. D) Cognitive psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behaviorism. 16. Which of the following is a term for learning that remains hidden until needed? A) Cognitive learning. B) Modeling. C) Latent learning. D) Observational learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Latent learning. 17. Which of the following is NOT a stage in Piaget's Cognitive Stages? A) Preoperational stage. B) Sensorimotor stage. C) Psychosexual stage. D) Concrete operational stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Psychosexual stage. 18. Roy G Biv, Every Good Boy Does Fine, and My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles are all examples of A) Primacy Effect. B) Semantic Codes. C) Informational Retrieval. D) Recency Effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semantic Codes. 19. What was the neutral stimulus that was used to condition Pavlov's dogs? (cause salivation) A) The Food. B) An electric shock. C) Nothing. D) The Bell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Bell. 20. A once-neutral event that elicits a given response after a period of training in which it has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus A) Negative reinforcement. B) Reinforcement. C) Conditioned stimulus (CS). D) Conditioned response (CR). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conditioned stimulus (CS). 21. The IDEA category for Sensory Disabilities includes the following except A) Deafness. B) Deaf Blindness. C) Visually Impaired Including Blindness. D) Sensory Integration Disorder. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sensory Integration Disorder. 22. Removing something unpleasant in order to get a behavior to continue would be an example of ..... (i.e the sound of an alarm clock) A) Negative Punishment. B) Positive Reinforcement. C) Negative Reinforcement. D) Positive Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negative Reinforcement. 23. Identify:Reinforcers gradually guide behaviortoward closer and closer approximations of thedesired behavior. A) Stimulus. B) Shaping. C) Reinforcement. D) Punishment. E) Generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shaping. 24. Who had children watch adults hit a bobo doll, then observed that those children acted more aggressive later on? A) Pavlov. B) Watson. C) Skinner. D) Bandura. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bandura. 25. Which term would a learning researcher use for a physical reaction or behavior elicited by an external event or object? A) Punishment. B) Stimulus. C) Instinct. D) Response. E) Reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Response. 26. A ..... reinforcer increases the frequency of the behavior it follows when it is applied. A) Secondary. B) Negative. C) Positive. D) Negative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive. 27. He is known for his Law of Effect that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely A) Thorndike. B) John Watson. C) Skinner. D) Pavlov. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thorndike. 28. In the context of aggression and social learning, what does the term "vicarious reinforcement" mean? A) Learning through direct reinforcement. B) Learning through observing the consequences of others' actions. C) Learning through punishment. D) Learning through trial and error. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Learning through observing the consequences of others' actions. 29. Most psychologists suggest that punishment is not the best way to deal with a problem because it A) May cause children to learn to hit. B) May cause a child to run away. C) Does not teach the correct way to act. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 30. What's the primary difference between classical and operant conditioning? A) Classical is active; operant is passive. B) Classical is voluntary; operant is involuntary. C) Classical pairs stimuli; operant pairs behavior with consequences. D) There is no difference. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Classical pairs stimuli; operant pairs behavior with consequences. 31. Social learning theory is challenged by alternative theories, such as Eysenck's theory of the criminal personality. Therefore ..... A) The theory doesn't have any supporting evidence and we can't trust it. B) The theory might not be the only explanation for criminal behaviour. C) We can't apply it to everybody. D) We should ignore it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The theory might not be the only explanation for criminal behaviour. 32. What is the process by which a stimulus increases the chances of a preceding behavior occurring again? A) Flooding. B) Reinforcement. C) Systematic desensitization. D) Extinction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reinforcement. 33. Identify:Reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response A) Spontaneous Recovery. B) Acquisition. C) Generalization. D) Extinction. E) Discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spontaneous Recovery. 34. What is the definition of learning in psychology? A) The process of acquiring knowledge through genetic inheritance. B) The process of forgetting information in the brain. C) The process of acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or behaviors through experience, study, or teaching. D) The process of unlearning previously acquired knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The process of acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or behaviors through experience, study, or teaching. 35. Unconditioned reflexes is describe as ..... A) Dog salivating to the sound of the bell. B) A learned response after a pairing repeatedly a a conditioned stimulus. C) Bottom-up process of perception. D) A unlearned response to the Unconditioned stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A unlearned response to the Unconditioned stimulus. 36. When Elijah was a child, he spent many happy weekends with his grandmother and they had lots of fun baking scones together. Now whenever Elijah smells freshly baking scones he feels happy. The happiness he felt from spending time baking with his grandmother is ..... A) An unconditioned stimulus. B) An unconditioned response. C) A conditioned stimulus. D) A conditioned response. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An unconditioned response. 37. Their research is the basis for operant conditioning. A) Thorndike and Skinner. B) Freud and Tolman. C) Thorndike and Kohler. D) Tolman and Seligman. E) Bandura and Skinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thorndike and Skinner. 38. Wolfgang Kohler considered a chimpanzee's sudden solving of a problem as evidence of: A) Insight. B) Spontaneous recovery. C) Instinct. D) Learning set. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Insight. 39. Which psychologist founded behaviorism? A) BF Skinner. B) Ivan Pavlov. C) Sigmund Freud. D) John B. Watson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John B. Watson. 40. ..... is the end of a women's menstruation/period. A) Alzheimer's. B) Teratogen. C) Menopause. D) Depression. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Menopause. 41. Edward Thorndike argued that responses that lead to satisfying outcomes are more likely to be repeated, and that responses followed by unpleasant outcomes are less likely to be repeated. This became known as the Law of ..... A) Outcomes. B) Associations. C) Effect. D) Reinforcement. E) Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Effect. 42. In classical conditioning, extinction occurs when: A) A behavior is reinforced. B) The conditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus. C) A punishment follows a behavior. D) The conditioned stimulus is paired with a different response. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The conditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus. 43. What is Habituation? A) Acquisition of mental information by observing people or events through languages. B) A decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure. C) Connecting events that occurs in a sequence. D) Any relatively permanent changes in behavior brought about by experience or practice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure. 44. Behavior:Molly finishes her homework Consequence:She gets to go out with friends A) Negative punishment. B) Positive punishment. C) Negative reinforcement. D) Positive reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Positive reinforcement. 45. Which statement below best describes a conditioned response? A) The learned behaviour caused by a conditioned stimulus. B) Unlearned behaviour in response to unconditioned stimulus. C) A stimulus that does not naturally cause a response. D) Top-down processing of preception. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The learned behaviour caused by a conditioned stimulus. 46. Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. A) Classical Conditioning. B) Habituation. C) Cognitive Learning. D) Learning. E) Behaviorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Classical Conditioning. 47. Abraham Maslow is a co-founder of A) Humanistic psychology. B) Cognitive psychology. C) Psychoanalysis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humanistic psychology. 48. Which experiment is associated with children imitating aggressive behavior in the context of observational learning? A) Pavlov's Dog Experiment. B) Little Albert Experiment. C) Skinner Box Experiment. D) Bobo Doll Experiment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bobo Doll Experiment. 49. Operant conditioning A) A type of learning where behavior is strengthened by a reinforcer or diminished by a punisher. B) A method of teaching that relies on memorization and repetition. C) A form of learning that occurs through observation and imitation. D) A process where behavior is modified through classical conditioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A type of learning where behavior is strengthened by a reinforcer or diminished by a punisher. 50. Which of the following is NOT a function of the brain? A) Digesting food. B) Thinking. C) Walking. D) Breathing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Digesting food. 51. Reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses A) Variable-interval Schedule. B) Fixed-ratio Schedule. C) Variable-ratio Schedule. D) Fixed-interval Schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Variable-ratio Schedule. 52. A type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by punishment. A) Operant conditioning. B) Classical conditioning. C) Shaping. D) Modeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Operant conditioning. 53. The kind of amnesia where you can't form new memories A) Cognitive. B) Retrograde. C) Anterograde. D) Encoding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anterograde. 54. A stimulus that has no effect on the desired response prior to conditioning. In Pavlov's dogs, the food bowl before the experiment. A) Neutral Stimulus. B) Unconditioned Response. C) Conditioned Response. D) Unconditioned Stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neutral Stimulus. 55. If Jimmy is testing John's sound absolute threshold, what percentage of the time must John hear the minimum stimulus in order for the absolute threshold to have been found? A) 95%. B) 50%. C) 75%. D) 100%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 50%. 56. Which of the following experiments is most closely associated with classical conditioning? A) The Little Albert Experiment. B) The Stanford Prison Experiment. C) The Bobo Doll Experiment. D) The Skinner Box Experiment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Little Albert Experiment. 57. Ausubal was born in ..... A) America. B) Switzerland. C) German. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) America. 58. What is the future direction in behavioral psychology? A) To abandon behaviorism completely. B) To study emotions exclusively. C) To integrate behaviorism with cognitive psychology and neuroscience. D) To focus on internal mental processes only. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To integrate behaviorism with cognitive psychology and neuroscience. 59. Who is "B.F Skinner" ? A) F. Skinner was a famous chef and restaurateur. B) F. Skinner was a professional athlete. C) F. Skinner was a renowned painter and sculptor. D) F. Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) F. Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. 60. What does Thorndike's Law of Effect state? A) The more a response is practiced or repeated, the stronger the connection between stimulus and response becomes. B) Behaviors followed by favorable consequences are more likely to be repeated. C) The most recent responses made by an individual are more likely to be remembered. D) Responses that are followed by a positive outcome are more likely to be repeated. 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