According to Rescorla, the strength of a conditioned response depends on:

Related Mcqs:

1. In classical conditioning, the relationship between the conditioned stimulus and the conditioned response is __________________?

   A. learned
   B. reflexive
   C. hereditary
   D. conditioned

2. 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

3. The basic understanding of the relationship between unconditioned response (UR) and conditioned response (CR) includes which of the following ideas?

   A. The UR and CR are not always the same response
   B. Organisms come to generally behave toward conditioned stimulus as they do unconditioned stimulus
   C. Stimulus situation
   D. The UR and CR are always the same response
   E. (a), (b) and (c)

4. Imprinting, habituation, conditioned reflex type I and conditioned reflex type II are example of:

   A. Innate behaviour
   B. Instinct
   C. Learning behaviour
   D. Taxis and kinesis

5. Imprinting, habituation, conditioned reflex type I and conditioned reflex type II are example of:

   A. Innate behavior
   B. Instinct
   C. Learning behaviour
   D. Taxes and kinesis

6. 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 event

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

7. Skinner maintained that reinforcement determines the acquisition of a response; Bandura maintains that reinforcement determines the_______of a response.

   A. acquisition
   B. development
   C. performance
   D. generalization

8. Research on avoidance learning suggests that a fear response is acquired through_________conditioning: the avoidance response is maintained as a result of______conditioning.

   A. classical; operant
   B. operant; classical
   C. classical; classical
   D. operant; operant

9. The connection between stimulus and response depends on:

   A. The pleasure or discomfort an individual experiences
   B. The discomfort an individual faces
   C. The pleasure or discomfort an individual experiences
   D. None of the above

10. 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