In Wolfgang Kohler’s experiments, a chimp is put in a cage containing three boxes and a banana suspended high above the animal’s head. After first trying to jump up to reach the banana, the chimp looks around them then stacks the three boxes so it can climb up to the banana. This is an example of _____________?

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1. Ashley is trying to create a small Christmas village on the mantle of her fireplace. She bought 3-inch high figures to put near the back. Ashley is trying to increase the impression of depth in her Christmas village through the use of:

   A. texture gradient
   B. linear perspective
   C. light and shadow
   D. relative size

2. According to Wolfgang Kohler, when one of his chimps fastened two sticks together to reach a bunch of bananas, it was showing an evidence of _________________?

   A. trial-and-error learning
   B. a fixed-action pattern
   C. instinctual drift
   D. insight

3. In wolfgang Kohler’s experiment, the chimpanzee Sultan retrieved a long stick with a short stick to retrieve a piece of fruit. Sultan was able to reach the fruit as a result of:

   A. trial and error
   B. a fixation
   C. artificial intelligence
   D. insight

4. Putting animals in puzzle boxes to study their intelligence was initially undertaken by _______________?

   A. Skinner
   B. Pavlov
   C. Atkinson
   D. Thorndike

5. In experiments, an image is quickly flashed and then replaced by a “masking” stimulus that inhibits conscious perception of the original image. In these experiments, the researchers are studying the effect of:

   A. Tinnitus
   B. Accommodation
   C. Blindsight
   D. Priming

6. Experiments based on cognitive dissonance theory have examined the relationship between behavioural compliance and attitude change. Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn from these experiments?

   A. Behavioural compliance never leads to attitude change
   B. The lesser the inducement for compliance, the more the attitude change
   C. The greater the inducement for compliance the more the attitude change
   D. Behavioural compliance always leads to attitude change

7. Towards the close of the 19th century, who, as a result of his experiments with animals, formulated laws of learning that seemed to confirm his belief concerning the trial and error nature of learning?

   A. William james
   B. Edward Thomdike
   C. G.Stanely Hall
   D. Charles H.judd

8. In animals it consists of two lobes and is situated above the larynx:

   A. Thyroid gland
   B. islets of Langerhans
   C. Calcitonin Parathyroids
   D. All of the above Adrenals

9. The action potential cannot jump from one neuron to the next in line, rather the message is transmitted across snaps in the form of chemical messenger called:

   A. Neurotransmitters
   B. Neuro relaxers
   C. Neuro messengers
   D. Synaptic transmitters

10. Andrea views her work as primarily an opportunity to climb up the corporate ladder in pursuit of increasingly better positions. Andrea apparently views her work as a:

    A. flow
    B. contract
    C. career
    D. calling