A. William McDougall
B. Thorndike
C. Watson
D. None of these
Related Mcqs:
- Which THREE of the following are true regarding habituation and dishabituation?
1:Habituation involves a gradual reduction in the magnitude of the response to repeated presentation of the response of a stimulus
2:In dishabituation, the response returns when a salient extraneous stimulus is presented just before a trial with the habituated stimulus
3:Habituation is caused by sensory-motor fatigue
4:Habituation occurs as a consequence of the repeated presentation of a single eventA. 1,2 & 3
B. 2,3 & 4
C. 1,2 & 4
D. 4 - When Pavlov repeatedly presented the conditioned stimulus without pairing it with the unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned response failed to occur. This is known as __________________?
A. condition failure
B. recovery
C. extinction
D. habituation - A hypothesis concerning the role of language is shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought is called:
A. legal- rational authority
B. Sapir- Whorf hypothesis
C. Routine activities theory
D. None of these - In which form of conditioning is the conditioned stimulus (CS) presented after the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) _______________?
A. higher order conditioning
B. forward conditioning
C. backward conditioning
D. second order conditioning - The ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus is called __________________?
A. shaping
B. acquisition
C. discrimination
D. generalization - Rahila found that a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus only if it is contingent and:
A. Inclusive
B. Dominant
C. Informative
D. Appropriate - The presentation of an aversive stimulus of the removal of a positive stimulus are both examples of:
A. negative reinforcement
B. punishment
C. positive reinforcement
D. secondary reinforcement - The idea that the amount of change in a stimulus necessary to produce a JND is a constant proportion of the stimulus intensity is called:
A. James law
B. The all-or-none principle
C. The law of diminishing returns
D. Weber’s law - As one moves from external stimulus to moto response, which of the following constitutes an accurate sequential pattern?
A. afferent nerve, efferent nerve, neural modulator
B. efferent nerve, interneuron, afferent nerve
C. afferent nerve, interneuron, efferent nerve
D. efferent nerve, afferent nerve, neural modulator - _______is a response pattern in reaction to a stimulus in the environment.
A. Behavior
B. Treatment
C. Affection
D. None of these