The response of an individual emerging from an experience:

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 basic understanding of the relationship between unconditioned response (UR) and conditioned response (CR) includes which of the following ideas?

   A. The UR and CR are not always the same response
   B. Organisms come to generally behave toward conditioned stimulus as they do unconditioned stimulus
   C. Stimulus situation
   D. The UR and CR are always the same response
   E. (a), (b) and (c)

3. Skinner maintained that reinforcement determines the acquisition of a response; Bandura maintains that reinforcement determines the_______of a response.

   A. acquisition
   B. development
   C. performance
   D. generalization

4. Research on avoidance learning suggests that a fear response is acquired through_________conditioning: the avoidance response is maintained as a result of______conditioning.

   A. classical; operant
   B. operant; classical
   C. classical; classical
   D. operant; operant

5. Attitudes are not more accidents of individual experience. They result from_______living in the home, in the school, and in the community:

   A. Interest-by-interest
   B. Situation-by-situation
   C. Grade-by-grade
   D. Day-by-day

6. The process which manifests itself by adaptive changes in individual behaviour as a result of experience is:

   A. Learning behaviour
   B. Instinct
   C. Taxis
   D. Reflex

7. If an individual is facing the psychological crisis of identity versus role confusion, according to Erik Erikson’s model, that individual is most likely ____________?

   A. a preadolescent
   B. an adolescent
   C. a young adult
   D. a middle-aged adult

8. In a weight-reduction experiment, an overweight individual was given what the researcher called a new type of diet pill that would help curb the desire to eat in fact. the pill really contained powdered milk, but ever since the individual started taking the diet pill, he has reported that his desire to eat has decreased. This illustrates the:

   A. curvilinear relationship
   B. effect of extraneous variables
   C. natural experiment
   D. placebo effect

9. Who are becoming increasingly alert to the results of psychological studies that deal with individual patterns of growth, maturational readiness to learn, and individual differences in rate and limit of learning?

   A. Planers
   B. Researchers
   C. Educators
   D. Group leaders

10. The changes due to experience:

    A. Are permanent
    B. Continue throughout life
    C. Pave the way to new changes
    D. All of the above