This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning – Quiz 57 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 57 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. What are the branches of Psychology? A) Clinical, Counseling, and Educational Psychology. B) Only Educational Psychology. C) Not mentioned in the text. D) Only Clinical Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clinical, Counseling, and Educational Psychology. 3. Which of the following is the best example of a learning predisposition (Preparedness)? A) Pigeons can be trained to play tic-tac-toe. B) Cats become quicker at escaping out of boxes with practice. C) A chimpanzee suddenly realizes it can use a stick to retrieve an out-of-reach banana. D) Rewarding a person for a behavior leads to an increase in that behavior. E) It is easier to condition a person to be fearful of rats than of cars. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 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) Amygdala. C) Cerebellum. D) Frontal lobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebellum. 5. Positive and negative punishment are debated for their ..... A) Effectiveness. B) Frequency. C) Origin. D) Duration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Effectiveness. 6. Storage A) The process of retaining encoded information over time. B) The act of retrieving information from memory. C) The initial stage of memory formation. D) The ability to forget irrelevant information. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The process of retaining encoded information over time. 7. 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) Operant conditioning. B) Classical conditioning. C) Positive reinforcement. D) Negative reinforcement. E) Secondary reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Operant conditioning. 8. 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. 9. What psychologist is created the Law of effect? A) Thorndike. B) Bandura. C) Freud. D) Skinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thorndike. 10. 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. 11. What is the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses? A) Application. B) Stimulus Generalization. C) Stimulus Discrimination. D) Extinction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stimulus Generalization. 12. The unlearned, naturally occurring response to a natural, untrained stimulus A) Unconditioned stimulus. B) Neutral stimulus. C) Unconditioned response. D) Conditioned response. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unconditioned response. 13. Definition of Phobia: A) A learned fear. B) An unlearned fear. C) An irrational fear. D) A realistic fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An irrational fear. 14. Meritocracy is the understanding that A) Education is good for the economy. B) Good citizens aren't born. They need to be created/. C) Schools could teach children morals that their parents or caregivers were lacking. D) Education shouldn't be just for the privileged. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Education shouldn't be just for the privileged. 15. What is the term used to describe the process of learning by watching others without direct reinforcement or punishment? A) Observational learning. B) Imitative learning. C) Vicarious learning. D) Passive learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Observational learning. 16. What did Robert Ader and Nicholas Cohen discover about conditioning? A) It only affects behavior. B) It can suppress the immune system. C) It is not applicable to humans. D) It only works with positive stimuli. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It can suppress the immune system. 17. In operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response at unpredictable time intervals. A) Variable-interval schedule. B) Variable-ration schedule. C) Fixed-ration schedule. D) Fixed-interval schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Variable-interval schedule. 18. 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. 19. 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) Experimental research. B) Correlational research. C) Ethnographic study. D) Observation with statistical analysis of the data. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethnographic study. 20. 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. 21. When our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence is know as A) Learning. B) Habituation. C) Association. D) Behavorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Association. 22. 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. 23. Vicente tries oysters and becomes very ill. Now even the thought of oysters makes him nauseous. What is the unconditioned stimulus? A) Oysters. B) Sick. C) Bad oysters. D) Throwing up. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Throwing up. 24. 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. 25. 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. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 8Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 9Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books