Sensory experiences that occur in the absence of stimulus are called:

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. When Pavlov repeatedly presented the conditioned stimulus without pairing it with the unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned response failed to occur. This is known as __________________?

   A. condition failure
   B. recovery
   C. extinction
   D. habituation

3. The ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus is called __________________?

   A. shaping
   B. acquisition
   C. discrimination
   D. generalization

4. The idea that the amount of change in a stimulus necessary to produce a JND is a constant proportion of the stimulus intensity is called:

   A. James law
   B. The all-or-none principle
   C. The law of diminishing returns
   D. Weber’s law

5. Which philosophical movement claimed that the human mind consists of elementary ideas that originate from sensory experiences?

   A. nativism
   B. empiricism
   C. dualism
   D. interactionism
   E. None of these

6. In the context of Titchener’s research for the most elementary sensory experiences, introspection is a research method involving a detailed verbal report on ____________?

   A. one’s own conscious sensory experience
   B. how one’s own personality affects one’s conscious sensory experience
   C. how one’s own behavior affects one’s conscious sensory experience
   D. all of the above

7. European psychologist of the _________century devoted considerable attention to studies dealing with sensory experiences and mental imagery:

   A. 20th
   B. 19th
   C. 18th
   D. 17th

8. 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

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

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

10. The presentation of an aversive stimulus of the removal of a positive stimulus are both examples of:

    A. negative reinforcement
    B. punishment
    C. positive reinforcement
    D. secondary reinforcement