An association of indifferent stimuli or situations without patent reward is:

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. The orbitofrontal cortex: 1: Has critical implications for survival. 2: Serves a reward-decoding function. 3: Plays a very important role in emotion. 4: Is not involved in learning which stimuli are foods.

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

3. The ability to focus on stimuli in which we are interested while resisting distracting stimuli is called ________________?

   A. concentrated attending
   B. stimulus focusing
   C. selective attention
   D. structured perceiving

4. When placed in strange situations without their artificial mothers, Harlow’s infant monkeys demonstrated signs of:

   A. insecure attachment
   B. object permanence
   C. curiosity
   D. basic trust

5. Addictive drug cravings are likely to be associated with reward centers in the:

   A. thalamus
   B. cerebellum
   C. angular gyrus
   D. limbic system

6. In order to obtain a reward, a monkey learns to press a lever when a bell tone is on but not when a Buzzer tone is on. What kind of training is this?

   A. extinction
   B. generalization
   C. spontaneous recovery
   D. discrimination

7. Which nervous system governs responses to emergency situations?

   A. Peripheral
   B. Central
   C. Parasympathetic
   D. sympathetic

8. Neurons convey information about the strength of stimuli by varying:

   A. the size of their action potentials
   B. the velocity of their action potentials
   C. the rate at which of fire action potentials
   D. all of the above

9. In people whose corpus callosum has not been severed verbal stimuli are identified more quickly and accurately:

   A. when sent to the right hemisphere first
   B. when sent to the left hemisphere first
   C. when presented to the left visual field
   D. when presented auditorily rather than visually

10. The simplest form of learning that involves modification of behaviour through a diminution of responses to repeated stimuli:

    A. Imprinting
    B. Habituation
    C. Latent learning
    D. Conditioned reflex type II