Nolan used to love tequila. However, a few weeks ago he drank way too much tequila and became very, very sick. His tendency to drink tequila has since declined dramatically. In operant terms, this sequence of events represents:

Related Mcqs:

1. In a study of the effects of alcohol consumption, some participants drank a nonalcoholic beverage that actually smelled and tested like alcohol. This nonalcoholic drink was a ___________?

   A. replication
   B. placebo
   C. random sample
   D. double blind
   E. None of these

2. People’s temple cult leader, Reverend Jim Jones persuaded his followers to feed a poison- laced drink to their children and than drink it themselves, and nearly 1,000 people died. This is an example of the negative influence of:

   A. Social roles
   B. Transactional leadership
   C. Transformational leadership
   D. Hawthorne effect
   E. Formalization

3. Zeeshan was involved in a bad car accident three weeks ago in which his best friend died at the scene. Ever since the accident, Zeeshan has not been able to sleep, thinks about the accident all the time and refuses to ride in a car. Zeeshan is most likely suffering from:

   A. Depression
   B. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
   C. Acute Stress Disorder
   D. PTSD

4. Consider this sequence: (1) food, (2) salivation with food (3) light with food, (4) salivation with light. This procedure for presenting stimuli and observing responses with dogs is based on Pavlov’s experiments, and represents which sequence of classical conditioning?

   A. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
   B. Conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
   C. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned response
   D. Unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response
   E. Conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, unconditioned stimulus

5. Rudy has been on a strict diet of 1000 calories per day for the last six weeks. He lost considerably more weight in the first three weeks of his diet than in the last three because:

   A. his insulin level has decreased
   B. learn tissue is maintained by fewer calories than is fat tissue
   C. his metabolic rate has decreased
   D. his fat cells have decreased in number

6. Rais just came back from seeing a neurologist. Rais tells you that he will be having a test in which images of his brain will be recorded after radioactive chemicals have been injected into his chemicals have been injected into his bloodstream. However, Rais can’t remember the actual name of the test. it appears that his neurologist is planning:

   A. an electroencephalograph (EEG) recording
   B. a positron emission tomography (PET) scan
   C. a computerized tomography(CT) scan
   D. a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan

7. In operant conditioning, what is the relationship between events critical to learning and the response to be learned?

   A. They occur before the response
   B. They occur after the response
   C. They occur simultaneously with the response
   D. they are unrelated to the response

8. You have practice for weeks to perform in the fall play at school. In practice on occasion you have messed up your lines or forgotten a movement, however on the evening of the performance you are flawless. Which of the following phenomena did you likely experience?

   A. social loafing
   B. self- serving bias
   C. social facilitation
   D. deindividuation

9. John, in a meeting with his boss, was elated to hear the president of the company was impressed with his contribution. However, when he left the meeting and was sitting in his office, john began to experience feelings of anger. What theory would most support john’s circumstances?

   A. Nice- factor theory
   B. Face satisfaction theory
   C. Dissatisfaction theory
   D. Opponent process theory

10. After he suffered a stroke, Mr. Salim’s physical coordination skills and responsiveness to sensory stimulation quickly returned to normal unfortunately, however, he began to experience unusual difficulty figuring out how to find his way to various locations in his neighborhood. it most likely that Mr. Salim suffered damage to his:

    A. cerebellum
    B. autonomic nervous system
    C. thalamus
    D. association areas