After spending an exciting day running around at Lasertron, Jared decides to stay home and watch television rather than going out dancing. Jared’s decision to stay home is most consistent with the ______theory of motivation.

Related Mcqs:

1. Rasheed watches as customer with at least 40 items lines up at his express checkout line. He decides the customer must be a real “idiot” to miss the sign that indicates Rasheed’s checkout line is an express line with a limit of 10 items. Rasheed’s attribution for the cause of the customer’s behavior is consistent with_________?

   A. drawing an illusory correlation
   B. false consensus effect
   C. the fundamental attribution error
   D. a defensive attribution

2. A researcher has children watch 30 minutes of violent television, and then counts the number of times they hit each other afterward in a one-hour play period as a measure of aggression. The researcher causes aggression, however this conclusion may be invalid because:

   A. all children are prone to aggressive behavior
   B. it is unethical to force children to watch violent television
   C. there was no control group
   D. aggression wasn’t operationally defined

3. A student who has never studied decides to try it and is delighted to receive a B on the exam rather than the usual D. The student starts studying more regularly as a result of __________________?

   A. classical conditioning
   B. habituation
   C. positive reinforcement
   D. b and c

4. Among the many existing_________educational agencies are the home, church, playground, library, press, club, theatre, motion pictures, radio and television:

   A. Informal
   B. Social
   C. Welfare
   D. Controlled

5. The emphasis is on detailed information rather than generalizations, but the approach attempts to look at the whole rather than collect specific bits of:

   A. Study
   B. Information
   C. Scientific approaches
   D. Evaluation

6. If you intended to stop at the corner shop on the way home from school, but instead took your usual path from school to your home and missed the corner shop, then your behaviour has been controlled by which type of learning?

   A. Response-outcome association
   B. Stimulus-response association
   C. Selective response learning
   D. Instrumental learning
   E. Stimulus-habit association

7. The finding that people who sleep after learning a list of nonsense syllables forget less than people who stay awake provides evidence that forgetting may involve _________________?

   A. encoding failure
   B. repression
   C. implicit memory loss
   D. interference

8. Which TWO of the following are true of the learning set procedure?
   1:The animals learns to focus on classes of cues that are inaccurate predictors of reward
   2:In the win-stay, lose-shift strategy, the animal learns to persist with a choice that yields food, but shift to the other object if it does not
   3:In the learning-set procedure, all stimuli and associations have equal effect on the animal’s behaviour
   4:The occurrence of reward can be regarded as a stimulus that can enter into associations or acquire discriminative control over an instrumental action

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 3
   D. 2 & 4

9. Yasmin has decided to try a different restaurant. Instead of going to McDonalds like she usually does, she decides to go to KFC: Yasmin figures the two places are similar. According to Piaget, to Yasmin this new experience is an example of:

   A. accommodation
   B. going from bad to worse
   C. association
   D. assimilation

10. Client-centered therapy is most consistent with the ___________?

    A. Behavioral approach
    B. Cognitive approach
    C. Psychodynamic approach
    D. Humanistic approach