Operant conditioning as studied by: _____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. In classical conditioning, learning is evident when a: ______________?

   A. stimulus automatically produces a response without a prior history of experience
   B. stimulus which did not initially produce a response now elicits that response
   C. spontaneously emitted response increases in frequency as a result of in consequences
   D. subjects repeats an action he or she has observed in another and is praised for it

2. Which of the following broad domains can be studied by psychologists?

   A. Developmental processes
   B. Biological bases of behaviour
   C. Social basesof behaviour
   D. Cognitive and affective processes
   E. psychologists can study all of these domains

3. Psychology is a: _____________?

   A. Study of the mind
   B. Study of personality and mental illness
   C. Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
   D. None of these

4. Freud stressed the role of _____________ in shaping our personalities.

   A. the structure of the mind
   B. the function of our behaviors
   C. our history of rewards and punishments
   D. the unconscious

5. A condition resulting from endocrine imbalance and characterized by mental retardation is know as: _____________?

   A. Down’s Syndrome
   B. Rubella
   C. Cretinism
   D. Turner’s Syndrome

6. Basic ethical guidelines psychological researchers include: _____________?

   A. ensuring that participation is involuntary
   B. harming the subjects when necessary
   C. minimizing confidentiality
   D. providing results and interpretations to participants

7. A psychologist using the method naturalistic observation would: _____________?

   A. carefully design controlled situations in which to observe behavior
   B. rely on observations of subjects responses tonaires
   C. observe behavior as it happens outside the laboratory or clinic
   D. make records of the behavior of clients treated in therapy

8. The major problem with using hypnosis in police work is: _____________?

   A. vicarious inhibition
   B. that there is little evidence that information gathered by hypnosis has ever helped solve a police case
   C. the occurrence of false memories
   D. a person’s ability to be hypnotized

9. You are feeling a lot of fear, the brain site most likely involved is: _____________?

   A. the midbrain
   B. the left hemisphere
   C. the right hemisphere
   D. the amygdala

10. the two most basic divisions of the nervous system are the:_____________?

    A. somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system
    B. brain and the spinal cord
    C. sympathetic division and the parasympathetic division
    D. central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system