A. Operant conditioning learning
B. Trial-and-error learning
C. Latent Learning
D. Classical conditioning learning
Related Mcqs:
- Watson and Rayner (1`920) conditioned “Little Albert’ to fear white rats by banging a hammer on a steel bar as the child played with a white rat. Later, it was discovered that Albert feared not only white rats but white stuffed toys and Santa’s beard as well. Albert’s fear of these other objects can be attributed to:
A. the law effect
B. stimulus generalization
C. stimulus discrimination
D. an overactive imagination - When two groups of participants were each shown a different set of results based on a experiment with rats, both groups reported that the results shown to them were obvious outcomes. This suggests that sometimes things appear to be more obvious than they should. Which cognitive phenomenon can explain this effect?
A. Hindsight bias
B. Intuition
C. Availability heuristic
D. Conditional reasoning - Dr. Jamil wants to study the effects of poverty on one’s self concept. To do this he interviews a group of subjects from the inner city once every five years for a period of 30 years. This experiment is an example of what type-of study?
A. Correlational study
B. cross sectional study
C. Gesell’s dome
D. longitudinal study - In an experiment studying the effects of different drugs on reaction time, each subject is presented with all of the conditions in the experiment. This is an example of ____________?
A. factorial design
B. within subjects design
C. between subjects design
D. quasi-experimental design - If someone already spreads the rumor about an experiment for being assessment of racist attitudes and the subjects then take care of not showing racist attitudes. The result of experiment will be __________?
A. invalid
B. biased
C. error
D. unreliable - An experiment is performed to test the effects of sleep deprivation on rote memory. In this experiment, the dependent variable in the:
A. number of hours subjects go without sleep
B. rote memory scores
C. number of subjects deprived of sleep in the experimental group
D. correlation between hours of sleep and fatigue - Which of the following could be attributed to Tolman’s research?
A. Discovery of the law of effect
B. The concept of cognitive map
C. The negative effect of punishment
D. The role of classical conditioning in the formation of phobic disorders
E. None of these - A psychologist expects that rats raised in toy-filled cages will become better learner. This expectation of him is ___________?
A. research hypothesis
B. observer expectancy effect
C. independent variable
D. inferential statistics - Experiments with rats, monkeys and humans using sham feeding have advanced our knowledge about food intake by demonstrating that:
A. Satiety and reward signals are necessary to control eating
B. Taste and smell stop food-seeking
C. Gastric distension is caused by sham feeding
D. Satiety motivates food-seeking behavior - Gibson and Walk used a ‘visual cliff’ experiment to study ______________?
A. figure-ground discrimination
B. depth perception
C. feature detection
D. signal detection theory
