This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Psychology > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Brett recognizes a robin as fitting in to the category "bird" quicker than he does a penguin. This is because "robin" is a ..... A) Insight. B) Concept. C) Heuristic. D) Prototype. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prototype. 2. What are two types of learning? A) Operant and classical. B) Operant and cognitive. C) Classical and social cognitive. D) Classical and social. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Operant and classical. 3. Whorf's Linguistic Relativity suggests that: A) Language shapes thought and influences perception. B) Language is learned through imitation. C) Moral reasoning develops in stages. D) Cognitive development occurs in four stages. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language shapes thought and influences perception. 4. Whenever you see terms like Reinforcement and Punishment it is an example of ..... A) Modeling. B) Observational Learning. C) Classical Conditioning. D) Operant Conditioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Operant Conditioning. 5. Wechsler Intelligence tests have subtests in what two areas? A) Verbal and Performance. B) Numerical and Verbal. C) Inductive and Deductive Reasoning. D) Quantitative and Performance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal and Performance. 6. Which of the following is a key component of natural selection, according to Darwin? A) Genetic inheritance. B) Reinforcement. C) Reflexive behavior. D) Free will. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genetic inheritance. 7. Tina likes to play with slugs, but she can find them by the shed only after it rains. On what kind of reinforcement schedule is Tina's slug hunting? A) Fixed-ratio. B) Fixed-interval. C) Variable-ratio. D) Variable-interval. E) Continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Variable-interval. 8. A stimulus that encourages a behavior by meeting an organism's basic biological needs is called A) Flooding. B) Primary reinforcer. C) Secondary reinforcer. D) Conditioned stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Primary reinforcer. 9. A child receives a dime for, on average, every 5 dandelions he pulls from the yard. This is an example of a ..... schedule of reinforcement. A) Fixed interval. B) Variable interval. C) Fixed ratio. D) Variable ratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Variable ratio. 10. The salesperson travels from house to house, but never knows when they are going to find an interested buyer. It could be the next house, or it might take multiple stops to find a new customer. A) Fixed Interval. B) Fixed Ratio. C) Variable Interval. D) Variable Ratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Variable Ratio. 11. In operant conditioning a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses. A) Variable-ratio schedule. B) Fixed-interval schedule. C) Variable-interval schedule. D) Fixed-ratio schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fixed-ratio schedule. 12. Identify:An unlearned, naturally occurring response (such as salivation) to an unconditioned stimulus (US) (such as food in the mouth) A) Conditioned Response (CR). B) Neutral Stimulus (NS). C) Unconditioned Stimulus (US). D) Conditioned Stimulus (CS). E) Unconditioned Response (UR). Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Unconditioned Response (UR). 13. Which of the following terms, coined by Albert Bandura, refers to the process of observing and imitating behaviors performed by others? A) Conditioning. B) Reinforcement. C) Shaping. D) Modeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Modeling. 14. Who created the law of effect? A) Edward Thorndike. B) Watson. C) Jonh Garcia. D) Pavlov. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edward Thorndike. 15. Which behaviorism school argues that psychology should only study observable behaviors and not mental states? A) Methodological behaviorism. B) Structuralism. C) Cognitive behaviorism. D) Radical behaviorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Methodological behaviorism. 16. On what kind of a reinforcement schedule does a slot machine work? A) Variable-interval schedule. B) Fixed-interval schedule. C) Variable-ratio schedule. D) Fixed-ratio schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Variable-ratio schedule. 17. Learned helplessness emphasizes the role of thought processes, beliefs, and perceptions when shaping behavior and emotional responses. True or False? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. The ethical theme of beneficence refers to ..... A) Not breaching confidentiality unless there is a specific danger. B) Responsible caring. C) Showing up consistently. D) Not accepting gifts for doing your job. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Responsible caring. 19. According to Dr. Toldson, implicit bias refers to A) Biases that are based in fact. B) Biases beyond one's conscious awareness. C) Biases that are purposefully used to justify an action. D) The things that a lot of these people will actually admit to. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biases beyond one's conscious awareness. 20. Which is NOT a Factors that influence "Personality" ? A) Genetic make-up. B) The nature of situation. C) Past experience. D) Rewards. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rewards. 21. Learning is an inferred process and is different from ..... A) Experience. B) Performance. C) Conditioning. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Performance. 22. Pablo vainly searches for a screwdriver while failing to recognize that a readily available coin in his pocket would turn the screw. His oversight best illustrates: A) Belief perseverance. B) The availability heuristic. C) The representativeness heuristic. D) Functional fixedness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Functional fixedness. 23. Conducted experiments with rats and mazes to examine the role that reinforcement plays in the way that rats learn their way through complex mazes; led to idea of cognitive maps and latent learning. A) Martin Seligman. B) Robert Rescorla. C) Edward Tolman. D) Walter Mischel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edward Tolman. 24. The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system ..... A) Sensory Memory. B) Short-Term Memory. C) Long-Term Memory. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Long-Term Memory. 25. Keadaan yang memuaskan tidak hanya menambah probabilitas terulangnya respon yang menghasilkan keadaan yang memuaskan tetapi juga meningkatkan probabilitas terulang respon yang mengitari respon yang memperkuaat hal tersebut disebut Principle of polarity A) Benar. B) Salah. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salah. 26. Subjects that require no incentive because the children are already interested in the subject A) Intrinsic motivation. B) Extrinsic motivation. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intrinsic motivation. 27. Which law suggests that learning is facilitated when an organism is prepared and motivated to respond? A) Law of Exercise. B) Law of Effect. C) Law of Primacy. D) Law of Readiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Law of Readiness. 28. What is associative learning as described in the text? A) Learning that occurs through direct instruction and practice. B) Learning that involves making connections between stimuli or events that occur together. C) Learning that is based on trial and error. D) Learning that is purely instinctual and does not require experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Learning that involves making connections between stimuli or events that occur together. 29. What type of memory makes it possible for you to watch a movie without noticing the gaps between the frame? A) Sensory memory. B) Episodic memory. C) Procedural memory. D) Semantic memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory memory. 30. The learned ability to distinguish between a CS and other stimuli that does not signal a CR is called A) Classical Conditioning. B) Stimulus Generalization. C) Extinction. D) Stimulus Discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stimulus Discrimination. 31. What is the sudden realization of a problem's solution? A) Learned helplessness. B) Insight. C) Self-control. D) Latent learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Insight. 32. Which of the following is an example of a secondary reinforcer? A) Applause. B) Chocolate cake. C) Water. D) Money. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Money. 33. Texting or checking you social media is a ..... schedule. A) Variable-ratio. B) Fixed-ratio. C) Variable-interval. D) Fixed-interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Variable-interval. 34. Maddie gets a speeding ticket, and her parents take her car away for 2 weeks. What type of Operational Conditioning is taking place? A) Negative punishment. B) Negative reinforcement. C) Positive punishment. D) Positive reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negative punishment. 35. ..... occurs when an extinguished conditioned response reappears. A) Spontaneous Recovery. B) Extinction. C) Generalization. D) Discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spontaneous Recovery. 36. What is Fixed Ratio? A) Varying and unpredictable number of response. B) Fixed and predictable period of times. C) Fixed and predictable number of response. D) Varying and unpredictable period of times. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fixed and predictable number of response. 37. Remember the END of a list is what? A) Recency Effect of Serial Positon Effect. B) Primacy of Serial Positon Effect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recency Effect of Serial Positon Effect. 38. Although people can acquire phobias to almost any object of situation, certain phobias (e.g., those to snakes, spiders, heights) are much more common than others. This finding can best be explained by which of the following concepts? A) Biological preparedness. B) Stimulus discrimination. C) Stimulus generalization. D) Spontaneous recovery. E) Observational learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biological preparedness. 39. A type of learning where the individual learns by watching others A) Negative reinforcement. B) Classical conditioning. C) Observational learning. D) Systematic desensitization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Observational learning. 40. What are the specialized neurons that fire both when an individual performs an action and when they observe someone else performing the same action? A) Shadow neurons. B) Echo neurons. C) Duplicate neurons. D) Mirror neurons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mirror neurons. 41. What is the ultimate preparation goal for teachers in this course? A) To become school administrators. B) To teach at the university level. C) To act as teachers in early childhood and primary education. D) To specialize in educational technology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To act as teachers in early childhood and primary education. 42. Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement? A) Giving a child candy for cleaning their room. B) Scolding a pet for misbehaving. C) Taking painkillers to eliminate pain. D) Giving a dog a treat for sitting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taking painkillers to eliminate pain. 43. Who defined intelligence as consisting of seven mental abilities? A) B.F. Skinner. B) Louis Thurstone. C) John B. Watson. D) Howard Gardner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Howard Gardner. 44. BF Skinner, with his pigeons, studied learning that occurs due to reward and punishment A) Operant Conditioning. B) Learning. C) Classical Conditioning. D) Taste Aversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Operant Conditioning. 45. Behavior:Zane has his phone out in classConsequence:He gets it taken away A) + reinforcement. B) Punishment. C) Reinforcement. D) + punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Punishment. 46. In our discussions privilege refers to A) The engagement of self examination. B) Being treated to cake and a song at Applebee's when it's your birthday. C) The set of unearned benefits, advantages, and opportunities that are afforded to an individual simply due to his or her membership in a particular social group. D) Firmly held beliefs, life experiences, and exposure (or lack thereof) to those outside of our own groups. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The set of unearned benefits, advantages, and opportunities that are afforded to an individual simply due to his or her membership in a particular social group. 47. An experiment in which "participants" unanimously choose the wrong line. It is clear to you that they are wrong, but they have all given the same answer. A) Leon Festinger Cognitive Dissonance Experiment. B) Solomon Asch Line Experiment. C) Philip Zimbardo Prison Experiment. D) Stanley Milgram Shock Experiment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solomon Asch Line Experiment. 48. What is the learned association between the taste of a particular food and illness called? A) Taste aversion. B) Operant conditioning. C) Observational learning. D) Classical conditioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Taste aversion. 49. The highest and most consistent rate of response is produced by a ..... schedule. A) Variable-interval. B) Variable-ratio. C) Fixed-ratio. D) Fixed-interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Variable-ratio. 50. Who discovered classical conditioning and what was his initial research focus? A) Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, initially researched digestion. B) B.F. Skinner, American psychologist, initially researched operant conditioning. C) John Watson, American psychologist, initially researched behaviorism in infants. D) Edward Thorndike, American psychologist, initially researched animal intelligence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, initially researched digestion. 51. Prosocial behavior is: A) Reinforced conditioning. B) Learned aggressive behavior. C) Passive learning. D) Behavior that benefits others. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Behavior that benefits others. 52. What is extinction in classical conditioning? A) The addition of a new stimulus. B) The disappearance of a conditioned response. C) Strengthening a conditioned response. D) The reinforcement of an unconditioned stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The disappearance of a conditioned response. 53. How we interpret past events to create a memory A) Maintenance Rehearsal. B) Retrieval. C) Elaborative Rehearsal. D) Schema. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Schema. 54. What is the average IQ? A) 110. B) 120. C) 100. D) 90. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 100. 55. In exposure therapy for a phobia of spiders, clients are gradually shown images of spiders until their anxiety decreases. This method relies on: A) Insight learning. B) Observational learning. C) Operant conditioning. D) Classical conditioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Classical conditioning. 56. Once Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate to the sound of a bell, the bell was a(n) A) Neutral stimulus. B) Unconditioned response. C) Unconditioned stimulus. D) Conditioned stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conditioned stimulus. 57. The unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus, such as salivation when food is in the mouth. A) Unconditioned Stimulus. B) Conditioned Response. C) Unconditioned Response. D) Conditioned Stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unconditioned Response. 58. Abigail gets a star sticker every time she uses the "big girl potty" while potty training. This shows A) Negative reinforcement. B) Positive reinforcement. C) Negative punishment. D) Positive punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive reinforcement. 59. Which is an example of stimulus discrimination? A) Jon is afraid only of the dog who bit him. B) Jon is now afraid of all golden retrievers after being bitten by one. C) Jon is afraid of both dogs and cats after being bitten by a golden retriever. D) Jon is afraid of going to the park where he was bitten by a golden retriever. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jon is afraid only of the dog who bit him. 60. What is one way to engage families in the design of educational spaces? A) By focusing solely on student needs. B) By using only traditional materials. C) By involving them in the design process. D) By excluding them from the process. 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