An innate behaviour in which a directed movement either to or away from a stimulus is shown is:

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1. Currently a large proportion of the Pakistani populations overweight. Dr. Laeeq thinks that, in part, this may be due to an innate preference for foods that are rich in fats and suggested that in times Laeeq has suggested that in times when foods were not so readily available, this innate preference would ensure enough calories for energy and ensure enough calories for energy and survival Dr. Laeeq’s views are most consistent with those of the

   A. evolutionary perspective in psychology
   B. behavioral perspective in psychology
   C. biological perspective in psychology
   D. cognitive perspective in psychology

2. 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

3. An extremely complex behaviour that includes biological rhythms, territorial behaviour, courtship, mating, aggression, altruism and social organizations is:

   A. Instincts or Reflexes
   B. Innate behaviour
   C. Kinesis
   D. All of the above

4. The behaviour that involves the pairing of an irrelevant stimulus within:

   A. Imprinting
   B. Habituation
   C. Conditioning
   D. Conditioned reflex type II

5. Which one of the following approaches tries to analyze human behaviour in terms of stimulus-response units acquired through the process of learning, mainly through instrumental conditioning ?

   A. Cognitive Approach
   B. Dynamic and Psychoanalytic Approach
   C. Stimulus-Response Behaviouristic Approach
   D. Existential Approach

6. 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

7. Which of these is not a common behaviour displayed by individuals when they are in contact with a fear stimulus?

   A. Decreased heart rate
   B. Palpitations
   C. Sweating
   D. Shortness of birth

8. The behaviour that involves the pairing of an irrelevant stimulus within:

   A. Imprinting
   B. Habituation
   C. Conditioning
   D. Conditional reflex type II

9. In which form of conditioning is the conditioned stimulus (CS) presented after the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) _______________?

   A. higher order conditioning
   B. forward conditioning
   C. backward conditioning
   D. second order conditioning

10. Rahila found that a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus only if it is contingent and:

    A. Inclusive
    B. Dominant
    C. Informative
    D. Appropriate