A test that measures what a person has already learned in prior training is an ____________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. _______refers to a learned negative attitude toward a person based on their person’s membership in a particular group.

   A. Normative justice
   B. Prejudice
   C. Discrimination
   D. The Asch effect

2. The distributive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information is called ____________________?

   A. state-dependent memory
   B. retroactive interference
   C. the spacing effect
   D. proactive interference

3. Which TWO of the following statements are true of blocking?
   1: The phenomenon of blocking provides an interesting and much-studied instance of failure to learn, in spite of contiguous presentations of the CS and the US
   2: In a blocking experiment, animals receive training with what is termed a compound CS (Phase 2)
   3: The experimental group has first received a phase of training in which the US alone is conditioned (Phase 1)
   4: The experimental groups shows no (or very little evidence of learning about the CS that is presented in Phase 1

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

4. In Pavlovian conditioning the learned response is ____________?

   A. CS
   B. CR
   C. UCS
   D. UCR
   E. None of these

5. The psychological perspective that emphasizes on how observable responses are learned is the_____________ perspective?

   A. behavioral
   B. behavior genetics
   C. cognitive
   D. evolutionary

6. Which of the following learning mechanism does B.F. Skinner see as being the major means by which behavior is learned?

   A. classical conditioning
   B. operant conditioning
   C. observational learning
   D. insight learning

7. Memorizing by rote (i.e., repeating something over and over until it is learned) is also called _________________?

   A. declarative rehearsal
   B. elaborative rehearsal
   C. maintenance rehearsal
   D. distributed practice

8. In operant conditioning, what is the relationship between events critical to learning and the response to be learned?

   A. They occur before the response
   B. They occur after the response
   C. They occur simultaneously with the response
   D. they are unrelated to the response

9. Who defined ‘culture trait’ as a repeatedly irreducible unit of learned behaviour pattern or material product there of?

   A. Clark Wissler
   B. K. Popper
   C. Frazer
   D. Hoebel

10. Which of the following learning mechanisms does B.F. Skinner see as being the major means by which behavior is learned?

    A. classical conditioning
    B. operant conditioning
    C. observational learning
    D. insight learning