An individual can only easily learn if:

Related Mcqs:

1. Who are becoming increasingly alert to the results of psychological studies that deal with individual patterns of growth, maturational readiness to learn, and individual differences in rate and limit of learning?

   A. Planers
   B. Researchers
   C. Educators
   D. Group leaders

2. A test of the capacity to learn a particular skill and to learn within a specific area of knowledge is called a/an ____________________?

   A. aptitude test
   B. achievement test
   C. projective test
   D. acquisition test

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. Not every organism will learn at the same rate as a result of:

   A. Contiguity and conditioning
   B. Habituation and contiguity
   C. Blocking and preparedness
   D. Blocking and autoshaping
   E. Preparedness and conditioning

5. A child can learn only:

   A. What is taught to him
   B. What does he learn at home
   C. For what he wishes to learn
   D. What he find in his environment

6. If an individual is facing the psychological crisis of identity versus role confusion, according to Erik Erikson’s model, that individual is most likely ____________?

   A. a preadolescent
   B. an adolescent
   C. a young adult
   D. a middle-aged adult

7. In a weight-reduction experiment, an overweight individual was given what the researcher called a new type of diet pill that would help curb the desire to eat in fact. the pill really contained powdered milk, but ever since the individual started taking the diet pill, he has reported that his desire to eat has decreased. This illustrates the:

   A. curvilinear relationship
   B. effect of extraneous variables
   C. natural experiment
   D. placebo effect

8. Which psychological perspective would be most likely to emphasize that people can learn to discontinue bad habits such as smoking?

   A. biological
   B. social-cultural
   C. behavioral
   D. cognitive

9. A brain tumor in the hippocampus of the brain would impair a person’s ability to learn new things while leaving their old memories intact. This condition is known as _________________?

   A. retroactive inhibition
   B. anterograde amnesia
   C. proactive inhibition
   D. retrograde amnesia

10. An ability to learn new information and form new long-term memories is called ________________?

    A. retroactive amnesia
    B. proactive amnesia
    C. anterograde amnesia
    D. implicit amnesia