A. In the experiment by Gracia and Koelling (1966), animals given LiCl as the US showed an aversion to the light and click
B. Researchers have tended to assume that they results obtained from laboratory studies reveal general principles about the nature of association formation which apply to other species and other stimuli
C. The experiment of Gracia and Koelling (1966) opposed the nation of preparedness
D. The result of Gracia and Koelling’s (1966) experiment supported researchers’ attempts to establish general laws of learning
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - Which of the following statements applies to instrumental learning?
A. Instrumental learning is the process by which an animal learns about the relationship between the behaviour and the consequences of that behaviour
B. Instrumentally trained responses are not entirely elicited by identifiable stimuli
C. Instrumental learning allows the animal to control the occurrence of environmental events
D. All of the above - Which TWO of the following statements are true of blocking?
1: The phenomenon of blocking provides an interesting and much-studied instance of failure to learn, in spite of contiguous presentations of the CS and the US
2: In a blocking experiment, animals receive training with what is termed a compound CS (Phase 2)
3: The experimental group has first received a phase of training in which the US alone is conditioned (Phase 1)
4: The experimental groups shows no (or very little evidence of learning about the CS that is presented in Phase 1A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 3 & 4
D. 1 & 3 - 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 - Kim is trying to thread a needle, but the light is fairly dim. Due to the lack of light, the part of her eye that will help most in threading the needle is ________________?
A. cones
B. rods
C. lens
D. cornea - The light around the movie marquee flashed on-and-off in succession However, Jamil did not perceive them as separate lights flashing, but instead saw a continuous band of light moving around the edge of the marquee. Jamil’s perception illustrates:
A. Feature detection.
B. Bottom-up processing
C. Pre-attentive processing
D. The phi phenomenon - In bright light, the iris_______and the pupil________to control the amount of light entering the eye.
A. Expands; constricts
B. Constricts; expands
C. Focuses; constricts
D. Constricts; focuses - Which TWO of the following statements are true of simultaneous contrast illusions? 1. In the simultaneous tilt illusion, vertical stripes appear tilted away from the tilt of their surrounding stripes. 2. In the luminance illusion, a grey patch appears darker when surrounded by a dark area than when surrounded by a light area. 3 A purple patch appears slightly closer to blue when surrounded by red, and closer to red when seen against a blue background. 4. Visual illusion effect only exist for motion.
A. 1 & 3
B. 2 & 3
C. 3 & 4
D. 2 & 4 - The result of carefully controlled observations of clever Hans and his ability to solve math problems showed:
A. he could do math
B. he could add. but he could not subtract
C. he was cued by the owner looking up or down
D. none of these could be determined by observation - Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?
A. At an early oral stage children usually start to explore their environment but experience control and discipline from their parents
B. Fixation at the anal stage results in children deriving pleasure in adulthood from activities such as overeating, smoking, drinking and kissing
C. At the genital stage children discover pleasure from touching their genitals
D. During the latency period sexual impulses are rechanneled into activities such as sport, learning and social activities