Which of these is not a common behaviour displayed by individuals when they are in contact with a fear stimulus?

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. Watson and Rayner (1`920) conditioned “Little Albert’ to fear white rats by banging a hammer on a steel bar as the child played with a white rat. Later, it was discovered that Albert feared not only white rats but white stuffed toys and Santa’s beard as well. Albert’s fear of these other objects can be attributed to:

   A. the law effect
   B. stimulus generalization
   C. stimulus discrimination
   D. an overactive imagination

3. An extremely complex behaviour that includes biological rhythms, territorial behaviour, courtship, mating, aggression, altruism and social organizations is:

   A. Instincts or Reflexes
   B. Innate behaviour
   C. Kinesis
   D. All of the above

4. Which one of the following approaches tries to analyze human behaviour in terms of stimulus-response units acquired through the process of learning, mainly through instrumental conditioning ?

   A. Cognitive Approach
   B. Dynamic and Psychoanalytic Approach
   C. Stimulus-Response Behaviouristic Approach
   D. Existential Approach

5. 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

6. An innate behaviour in which a directed movement either to or away from a stimulus is shown is:

   A. Kinesis
   B. Taxis
   C. Reflex
   D. Instinct

7. The behaviour that involves the pairing of an irrelevant stimulus within:

   A. Imprinting
   B. Habituation
   C. Conditioning
   D. Conditioned reflex type II

8. The behaviour that involves the pairing of an irrelevant stimulus within:

   A. Imprinting
   B. Habituation
   C. Conditioning
   D. Conditional reflex type II

9. 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

10. 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