Performance of an earlier task is interfered with by the learning of a second, more recent task in _________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)?
   1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms
   2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
   3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
   4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.

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

2. in the traditional learning experiment, the effect of practice on performance is investigate(d) performance is the ______________ variable.

   A. independent
   B. extraneous
   C. dependent
   D. control

3. Which of the following characteristics are contributors to job satisfaction, as identified in Hackman and Oldham’s (1976) influential job characteristics theory? 1: Variety 2: Recognition 3: Task identity 4: Task difficulty

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

4. Which of the following statements are true? 1. On a vernier acuity task, humans can discern the direction of very tiny offsets, but performance deteriorates with practice. 2. Different types of visual search have different behavioural characteristics and depend on different brain regions. 3. Walsh et.al. (1998) suggest that the right parietal lobe may be involved in setting up new templates in the conjunctions of, say, colour and form. 4 All of the above.

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

5. The______describes the relationship between arousal level, task difficulty, and efficiency of performance.

   A. arousal theory
   B. drive reduction theory
   C. Yerkes-Dodson Law
   D. inverted-U function

6. That the upper part of the body develops earlier than the lower part is termed ________________?

   A. proximodorsal
   B. cephalocaudal
   C. corticodistal
   D. general to specific

7. Pavlov’s initial discovery of what is now called classical conditioning emerged from his earlier studies of __________________?

   A. mating behavior in dogs
   B. operant behaviors in dogs
   C. digestive reflexes in dogs
   D. neurological damage in dogs

8. which of the following method of learning is used in learning by doing:

   A. Learning thought trial & error
   B. Learning thought imitation
   C. Learning thought insight
   D. All of the above

9. 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

10. _______developed detailed conclusions concerning learning, transfer, and reactive inhibition for learning theory and for education:

    A. E.j.Swenson
    B. Binet
    C. Lloyod Allen cook
    D. Nojne of the above