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

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. The arousal theory of motivation would be most useful for understanding the aversive effect of:

   A. sexual disorders
   B. boredom
   C. hunger
   D. refractory periods

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

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

4. A response that leads to the removal of an unpleasant stimulus is one being _____________________?

   A. positively reinforced
   B. negatively reinforced
   C. punished
   D. extinguished

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. The repeated presentation of the CS without the UCS results in _________________?

   A. spontaneous recovery
   B. inhibition
   C. extinction
   D. higher-order conditioning

10. The repeated presentation of the CS without the UCS results in __________________?

    A. spontaneous recovery
    B. inhibition
    C. extinction
    D. higher-order conditioning