This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 6 Learning Quiz 8 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In Pavlov's classic experiment, food was the A) Unconditioned stimulus. B) Unconditioned response. C) Conditioned stimulus. D) Conditioned response. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unconditioned stimulus. 2. Motivated forgetting is another name for A) Repression. B) Regression. C) Retrograde interference. D) Anter0grade amnesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repression. 3. The process of translating information into a form it can be stored. A) Chunking. B) Encoding. C) Retrieving. D) Priming. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Encoding. 4. Psychologist E.C. Tolman did experiments on rats that showed A) The success of the Skinner box. B) How classical conditioning works. C) The effectiveness of negative reinforcement. D) That reinforcement is not always necessary for learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That reinforcement is not always necessary for learning. 5. Adding something unpleasant to get a behavior to end would be an example of ..... (i.e not doing chores results in more chores being added) A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive Punishment. 6. Surface learning is associated with: A) Long-term memory. B) Strong critical thinking. C) Limited critical thinking. D) Better academic results. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limited critical thinking. 7. Students are accustomed to a bell ringing to indicate the end of a class period. The principal decides to substitute popular music for the bell to indicate the end of each class period. Students quickly respond to the music in the same way they did to the bell. What principle does this illustrate? A) Generalization. B) Habituation. C) Aquisition. D) Stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Generalization. 8. Which of the following refers to a classical conditioning method that exposes an individual to a harmless stimulus until fear responses to that stimulus are extinguished? A) Flooding. B) Systematic desensitization. C) Counterconditioning. D) Spontaneous recovery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flooding. 9. Brett recognizes a robin as fitting in to the category "bird" quicker than he does a penguin. This is because "robin" is a ..... A) Concept. B) Heuristic. C) Prototype. D) Insight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prototype. 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. Whenever you see terms like Reinforcement and Punishment it is an example of ..... A) Operant Conditioning. B) Classical Conditioning. C) Observational Learning. D) Modeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Operant Conditioning. 13. 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. 14. Which of the following is a key component of natural selection, according to Darwin? A) Free will. B) Reflexive behavior. C) Genetic inheritance. D) Reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genetic inheritance. 15. 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) Continuous. B) Fixed-interval. C) Fixed-ratio. D) Variable-interval. E) Variable-ratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Variable-interval. 16. A stimulus that encourages a behavior by meeting an organism's basic biological needs is called A) Secondary reinforcer. B) Primary reinforcer. C) Conditioned stimulus. D) Flooding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Primary reinforcer. 17. 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 ratio. B) Variable ratio. C) Fixed interval. D) Variable interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Variable ratio. 18. 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 Ratio. B) Variable Ratio. C) Fixed Interval. D) Variable Interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Variable Ratio. 19. In operant conditioning a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses. A) Fixed-ratio schedule. B) Variable-ratio schedule. C) Fixed-interval schedule. D) Variable-interval schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fixed-ratio schedule. 20. Identify:An unlearned, naturally occurring response (such as salivation) to an unconditioned stimulus (US) (such as food in the mouth) A) Conditioned Stimulus (CS). B) Neutral Stimulus (NS). C) Unconditioned Stimulus (US). D) Conditioned Response (CR). E) Unconditioned Response (UR). Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Unconditioned Response (UR). 21. Which of the following terms, coined by Albert Bandura, refers to the process of observing and imitating behaviors performed by others? A) Conditioning. B) Shaping. C) Modeling. D) Reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Modeling. 22. Who created the law of effect? A) Edward Thorndike. B) Pavlov. C) Watson. D) Jonh Garcia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edward Thorndike. 23. Which behaviorism school argues that psychology should only study observable behaviors and not mental states? A) Structuralism. B) Radical behaviorism. C) Methodological behaviorism. D) Cognitive behaviorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Methodological behaviorism. 24. On what kind of a reinforcement schedule does a slot machine work? A) Variable-ratio schedule. B) Fixed-ratio schedule. C) Variable-interval schedule. D) Fixed-interval schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Variable-ratio schedule. 25. 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. 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