A psychologist expects that rats raised in toy-filled cages will become better learner. This expectation of him is ___________?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. A child is playing with a toy. When you hide the toy, she makes no effort to look for it. According to Jean Piaget, the child is in which stage of cognition?

   A. Concrete Operational
   B. Formal operational
   C. Sensorimotor
   D. Preoperational

3. In the context of____________, the researcher teacher-learner situation to the teacher or teacher-learner situation so that the participant may improve understanding:

   A. Educational logic
   B. Educational philosophy
   C. Educational goal
   D. Educational research

4. The learner needs to be stimulated. It is the teacher who provides the kind of stimulation that will enable the child to become an active:

   A. Learner
   B. Leader
   C. Superior
   D. Educationist

5. In order to understand the unusual behavior of an adult client, a clinical psychologist has carefully investigated the client’s current life situation and his physical, social-cultural, educational history which research method has the psychologist employed?

   A. the case study
   B. the survey
   C. naturalistic observation
   D. correlational research

6. A child in Piaget’s preoperational stage is given a toy and attempts to eat it. This child is demonstrating ____________?

   A. generalization
   B. accommodation
   C. assimilation
   D. transition

7. 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

8. Tolman’s experiment with rats in the maze was aimed to study:

   A. Operant conditioning learning
   B. Trial-and-error learning
   C. Latent Learning
   D. Classical conditioning learning

9. 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

10. Select the TWO correct statements from those below with regard to psychological research:
    1.You can fully understand the result of an IQ test without knowing anything about intelligence testing and standard scores.
    2. if two things are correlated this signifies that one is the cause of the other.
    3. A good knowledge of psychological research methods allows you to avoid making the mistakes that journalists politicians and many others make because they lack the necessary conceptual understanding.
    4. In most countries, in order to become a psychologist, you will be required to conduct a piece of psychological research.

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