Chapter 05 PostTest
Psychology
Vervenne,Terry
Submitted :9/15/2015 Gradebook Grade: 18/20 Questions Attempted: 20/20 Submission No: 1/1
2:10:29 PM
1. Changes such as an increase in height or the size of the brain are called:
a. unconditioned response.
b. reflex.
c. maturation.
d. classical conditioning.
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Feedback: [Link]. Definition of Learning, p. 176
2. What are the two kinds of behavior that all organisms are capable of?
a. actions and basic survival instincts
b. involuntary and voluntary
c. reckless and controlled
d. pleasant and unpleasant
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Feedback: [Link]. What’s in It for Me? Operant Conditioning, p. 186
3. The law of effect states if an action is followed by a pleasurable consequence,
the action is likely to:
a. be remembered.
b. become a cognitive expectation.
c. be repeated.
d. reduce pain.
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Feedback: [Link]. What’s in It for Me? Operant Conditioning, p. 187
4. The Brelands determined that most Skinnerian behaviorists made the false
assumption that:
a. differences between species of animals are significant.
b. all responses are equally able to be conditioned to any stimulus.
c. animals will revert to genetically controlled patterns.
d. animal consciousness differs from human consciousness.
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Feedback: [Link]. What’s in It for Me? Operant Conditioning, p. 201
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Chapter 05 PostTest
Psychology
Vervenne,Terry
Submitted :9/15/2015 Gradebook Grade: 18/20 Questions Attempted: 20/20 Submission No: 1/1
2:10:29 PM
5. In a(n) ________, the occurrence of reinforcement is more predictable and
therefore the individual being reinforced is more likely to adjust his response
to the timing of the reinforcement.
a. interval schedule
b. ratio schedule
c. fixed interval schedule of reinforcement
d. variable interval schedule of reinforcement
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Feedback: [Link]. What’s in It for Me? Operant Conditioning, pp. 191-192
6. ________ pioneered the empirical study of the basic principles of classical
conditioning.
a. B. F. Skinner
b. Edward L. Thorndike
c. John B. Watson
d. Ivan Pavlov
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Feedback: [Link]. It Makes Your Mouth Water: Classical Conditioning, p.
177
7. ______ is the classical conditioning of a reflex response or emotion by
watching the reaction of another person.
a. Conditioned learning
b. Operant conditioning
c. Vicarious conditioning
d. Shaping
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Feedback: [Link]. It Makes Your Mouth Water: Classical Conditioning, p.
183
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Chapter 05 PostTest
Psychology
Vervenne,Terry
Submitted :9/15/2015 Gradebook Grade: 18/20 Questions Attempted: 20/20 Submission No: 1/1
2:10:29 PM
8. A naturally occurring stimulus that leads to an involuntary (reflex) response is
a/an:
a. unconditioned stimulus.
b. conditioned stimulus.
c. unconditioned response.
d. neutral stimulus.
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Feedback: [Link]. It Makes Your Mouth Water: Classical Conditioning, p.
177
9. Pavlov initially set out to study his dogs’ ___________.
a. digestive systems
b. social behavior
c. circulatory systems
d. brain activity
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Feedback: [Link]. It Makes Your Mouth Water: Classical Conditioning, p.
177
10. Birds, who find their food by sight, will avoid any object or insect that simply
looks like the one that made them sick. This is a result of:
a. reflex.
b. maturation.
c. operant conditioning.
d. biological preparedness.
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Feedback: [Link]. It Makes Your Mouth Water: Classical Conditioning, pp.
184-185
11. The learning/performance distinction is a kind of:
a. latent learning.
b. operant conditioning.
c. instinct.
d. classical conditioning.
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Feedback: [Link]. Observational Learning, p. 209
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Chapter 05 PostTest
Psychology
Vervenne,Terry
Submitted :9/15/2015 Gradebook Grade: 18/20 Questions Attempted: 20/20 Submission No: 1/1
2:10:29 PM
12. Which of the following is one of Bandura’s elements of observational learning?
a. mastery
b. memory
c. perception
d. flattery
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Feedback: [Link]. Observational Learning, p. 211
13. The four elements of observational learning are attention, memory, ______, and
______.
a. imitation; desire
b. cognition; imagination
c. imitation; cognition
d. imagination; desire
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User Responses: [Link]; desire
Feedback: [Link]. Observational Learning, pp. 210-211
14. Which of the following would be considered negative reinforcement?
a. grounding a teenager who returns home after curfew
b. receiving a traffic ticket for speeding
c. taking an aspirin when you have a headache
d. a child who had previously been whining that they want candy becomes quiet after
getting the candy
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Feedback: [Link]. What’s in It for Me? Operant Conditioning, p. 189
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Chapter 05 PostTest
Psychology
Vervenne,Terry
Submitted :9/15/2015 Gradebook Grade: 18/20 Questions Attempted: 20/20 Submission No: 1/1
2:10:29 PM
15. In a later modification of the classic Bobo doll experiment, the children who
had seena model beat up the doll and then get rewarded showed aggression
toward the doll. Another group had seen the model get punished rather than
rewarded. Which of the following statements is true about these other
children?
a. They did not beat up the doll until offered a reward to demonstrate what the model
had done.
b. They refused to beat up the doll under any circumstances.
c. They beat up the doll but denied doing so when asked about it.
d. Half of them beat up the doll and half did not.
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demonstrate what the model had done.
Feedback: [Link]. Observational Learning, p. 210
16. Pavlov’s dogs exhibited stimulus discrimination when they:
a. did not demonstrate a conditioned response upon hearing ticking sounds similar to
the metronome.
b. initially began salivating to the metronome when presented with food.
c. stopped experiencing the conditioned response in the absence of the unconditioned
stimulus.
d. salivated at the sound of the metronome after a few weeks of not hearing it.
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User Responses: [Link] experiencing the conditioned response in the absence
of the unconditioned stimulus.
Feedback: [Link]. It Makes Your Mouth Water: Classical Conditioning, p.
180
17. The term “extinction” may be misleading because:
a. learning is relatively permanent, meaning things are not “unlearned.”
b. it applies only to natural selection.
c. it has been shown in subsequent studies that CRs don’t really die out, as they did
with Pavlov’s dogs.
d. once something is learned, it is always accessible.
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“unlearned.”
Feedback: [Link]. It Makes Your Mouth Water: Classical Conditioning, p.
180
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Chapter 05 PostTest
Psychology
Vervenne,Terry
Submitted :9/15/2015 Gradebook Grade: 18/20 Questions Attempted: 20/20 Submission No: 1/1
2:10:29 PM
18. Learning that remains hidden until its application becomes useful is called:
a. a learning curve.
b. insight learning.
c. latent learning.
d. conditioned learning.
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User Responses: [Link] learning.
Feedback: [Link]. Cognitive Learning Theory, p. 206
19. Which of the following individuals believed that cognition was an important
part of behavior?
a. B. F. Skinner
b. Martin Seligman
c. John Watson
d. Edward Thorndike
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User Responses: [Link] Seligman
Feedback: [Link]. Cognitive Learning Theory, pp. 207-209
20. Further studies that followed Köhler’s work with chimpanzees:
a. have found no support for the concept of animal insight.
b. have shown definitively that animals have insight.
c. have shown that chimpanzees are the only animals that have insight.
d. have found support for the concept of animal insight.
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User Responses: [Link] found support for the concept of animal insight.
Feedback: [Link]. Cognitive Learning Theory, p. 207