This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning – Quiz 66 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 66 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the "acquisition" in psychology? A) The acquisition in psychology refers to the process of purchasing goods or services. B) The acquisition in psychology refers to the process of inheriting traits or characteristics from parents. C) The acquisition in psychology refers to the process of gaining knowledge or skills through experience or learning. D) The acquisition in psychology refers to the process of losing knowledge or skills through forgetting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The acquisition in psychology refers to the process of gaining knowledge or skills through experience or learning. 2. What is the role of positive reinforcement in operant conditioning? A) Positive reinforcement is used to decrease the likelihood of a behavior. B) Positive reinforcement is used to increase the likelihood of a behavior. C) Positive reinforcement has no role in operant conditioning. D) Positive reinforcement is used to punish a behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive reinforcement is used to increase the likelihood of a behavior. 3. Which of the following is an example of a "Flashbulb" memory? A) Remembering what you ate for breakfast. B) Thinking about your 7th trip to Disneyland. C) Knowing who the first President of the U.S. was. D) Remembering where you were on 9/11. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Remembering where you were on 9/11. 4. What is an example of positive punishment in operant conditioning? A) Receiving a reward for good behavior. B) Removing an unpleasant stimulus to increase a behavior. C) Applying an unpleasant stimulus to decrease a behavior. D) Ignoring a behavior to decrease its occurrence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Applying an unpleasant stimulus to decrease a behavior. 5. A child hears the advertising jingle for an ice cream parlor and immediately wants to go there. This is an example of A) Conditioning. B) A neutral stimulus. C) Extinction. D) Generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conditioning. 6. Learning in which a certain action is reinforced or punished, resulting in corresponding increases or decreases in occurrence A) Classical conditioning. B) Operant conditioning. C) Social learning. D) Modeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Operant conditioning. 7. What is one of the best practices for creating inclusive environments? A) Professional development for educators. B) Limiting community partnerships. C) Ignoring student feedback. D) Standardizing classroom layouts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Professional development for educators. 8. A researcher who is interested in how children make friendships, watches two little girls playing together on the playground at their school. He records each activity that the two girls do together as a pair. What type of research is being conducted? A) Correlational method. B) Observational learning. C) Naturalistic observation. D) Structured observation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Naturalistic observation. 9. Which of the following best describes the brain? A) A mental concept. B) A physical organ. C) An emotional state. D) A chemical reaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A physical organ. 10. Which of the following is an example of vicarious reinforcement? A) Rewarding yourself when you succeed in changing your behavior. B) Learning that a behavior is encouraged by watching others. C) Shielding children from media violence. D) Using time-out to discourage misbehavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Learning that a behavior is encouraged by watching others. 11. Which of the following concepts would early behaviorists NOT be interested in researching? A) Acquisition. B) Discrimination. C) Cognition. D) Extinction. E) Shaping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cognition. 12. A slot machine provides reinforcement to players based on a A) Variable-ratio schedule. B) Fixed-ratio schedule. C) Variable-interval schedule. D) Fixed-interval schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Variable-ratio schedule. 13. Reinforcer A) Any event that weakens the behavior it follows. B) In operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior it follows. C) A type of punishment used to decrease unwanted behavior. D) A reward given for completing a task successfully. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior it follows. 14. The kind of amnesia where you can't remember your past A) Cognitive. B) Retrieval failure. C) Anterograde. D) Retrograde. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Retrograde. 15. Identify:administers an undesirable consequence or withdraws something desirable inan attempt to decrease the frequency of a behavior(a child's disobedience). A) Punishment. B) Stimulus. C) Reinforcement. D) Generalization. E) Shaping. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Punishment. 16. Who conducted the famous Bobo doll experiment? A) Albert Bandura. B) John Watson. C) B.F. Skinner. D) Ivan Pavlov. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Albert Bandura. 17. What psychologist is associated with classical conditioning? A) John B. Watson. B) Edward L. Thorndike. C) Ivan Pavlov. D) Sigmund Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ivan Pavlov. 18. What is a valid criticism of John B. Watson's Little Albert Experiment? A) The experiment used too many trials. B) The research involved emotionally harming a baby, which is unethical. C) The research encouraged violence in children, which is unethical. D) The researchers used operant conditioning to train a baby to hit others, which is unethical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The research involved emotionally harming a baby, which is unethical. 19. Freeman & Fraiser (1966) found that if people had agreed to place a postcard in their window saying "drive safely, " they were more willing to build an ugly billboard in their yard. This was due to which compliance technique? A) Consistency/Foot in the Door. B) Authority. C) Reciprocity/Door in the Face. D) Scarcity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consistency/Foot in the Door. 20. The following are the example of the implication of Gestalt Theory, Law of Continuity in Education except A) Able to use previous knowledge to build upon their understanding. B) Closely related topic can be taught together. C) Links between previously learnt and what they already know. D) Revisiting points from the last lesson at the beginning of the next. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Closely related topic can be taught together. 21. When there is no longer a pairing of the US and CS it is called ..... A) Spontaneous Recovery. B) Extinction. C) Higher order conditioning. D) Pairing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extinction. 22. Feelings of non control in a competitive situation is called: A) Learned Effectiveness. B) Learned Helplessness. C) Fear of failure. D) The Perfectionist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Learned Helplessness. 23. Conducted classical conditioning experiment on Little Albert for him to fear a white rat after pairing with a loud noise. A) Albert Bandura. B) John Watson. C) Ivan Pavlov. D) Edward Thorndike. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Watson. 24. According to research, racially and ethnically diverse students are more likely to be A) Celebrated for their diversity. B) Subject to more severe disciplinary practices. C) Treated fairly amongst teachers. D) Recipients of social mobility related to universal education. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subject to more severe disciplinary practices. 25. Any event that follows a behavior and results in the behavior having a lower probability of happening in the future is known as a: A) Negative reinforcer. B) Positive reinforcer. C) Punisher. D) Negative conditioner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Punisher. ← 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