An individual learns through:

Related Mcqs:

1. Which TWO of the following are true of the learning set procedure?
   1:The animals learns to focus on classes of cues that are inaccurate predictors of reward
   2:In the win-stay, lose-shift strategy, the animal learns to persist with a choice that yields food, but shift to the other object if it does not
   3:In the learning-set procedure, all stimuli and associations have equal effect on the animal’s behaviour
   4:The occurrence of reward can be regarded as a stimulus that can enter into associations or acquire discriminative control over an instrumental action

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

2. A child learns attitudes:

   A. Learns positive attitudes from his family
   B. Learns both positive and negative attitudes from his family
   C. Learns negative attitudes from his family
   D. None of the above

3. In Piaget’s classification system, the child learns language and the logic of classification and numbers during which period?

   A. sensorimotor
   B. latency
   C. formal operations
   D. concrete operation

4. In order to obtain a reward, a monkey learns to press a lever when a bell tone is on but not when a Buzzer tone is on. What kind of training is this?

   A. extinction
   B. generalization
   C. spontaneous recovery
   D. discrimination

5. When an infant learns to call his father “daddy” and then calls all men “daddy”, this is an example of ____________________?

   A. overgeneralization
   B. over-discrimination
   C. under-generalization
   D. telegraphic speech

6. Which process is at work when a toddler learns to use a sippy cup when all he knew before was a bottle?

   A. Maturation
   B. Accommodation
   C. Growth
   D. Assimilation

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. The change in an individual occurs when he:

    A. Intends to change
    B. Passes through an experience
    C. Passes through the learning process
    D. Both (a) and (b)