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Pschology Chapter 7 practice test

Questão 1 de 20

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Learning is defined as "the process of acquiring through experience new and relatively enduring______ or________"

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • Information

  • Action

  • behaviors

  • hardships

Explicação

Questão 2 de 20

1

Two forms of associative learning are classical conditioning, in which the organism associates ______________ and operant conditioning, in which the organism associates__________.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • two or more responses; a response and consequence

  • two or more stimuli; two or more consequences

  • two or more stimuli; a response and consequence

  • two or more responses; two or more stimuli

Explicação

Questão 3 de 20

1

In Pavlov's experiments, the tone started as a neutral stimulus, and then became a(n)____________ Stimulus.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Conditioned

  • Unconditioned

  • Neutral

  • Partial

Explicação

Questão 4 de 20

1

Dogs have been taught to salivate to a circle but not to a square. this process is an example of?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Pro-social behavior

  • discrimination

  • Shaping

  • acquisition

Explicação

Questão 5 de 20

1

After Watson and Rayner classically conditioned Little Albert to fear a white rat, the child later showed fear in response to a rabbit, a dog, and a sealskin coat. this illustrates

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • extinction

  • generalization

  • spontaneous energy

  • discrimination between two stimuli

Explicação

Questão 6 de 20

1

Thorndike's law of effect was the basis for_____ work on operant conditioning and behavior control.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Pavlov's

  • Skinner's

  • Dr. Adam's

  • Freud's

Explicação

Questão 7 de 20

1

One way to change behavior is to reward natural behaviors in small steps, as they get closer and closer to a desired behavior. This process is called________

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Discrimination

  • modeling

  • acquisition

  • Shaping

Explicação

Questão 8 de 20

1

your dog is barking so loudly that it's making your ears ring. You clap your hands, the dog stops barking, your ears ringing, and you think to yourself, "If I'll have to do that when he barks again." The end of the barking was for you a________

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • positive reinforcer

  • Negative reinforcer

  • positive punishment

  • negative punishment

Explicação

Questão 9 de 20

1

reinforcing a desired response only some of the times it occurs is called?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • positive reinforcement

  • negative reinforcement

  • Partial reinforcement

  • continuous reinforcement

Explicação

Questão 10 de 20

1

A restaurant is running a special deal. After you buy four meals at full price, your fifth meal will be free. this is an example of a_______ schedule of reinforcement

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • fixed-ratio

  • variable-ratio

  • fixed-interval

  • variable-interval

Explicação

Questão 11 de 20

1

the partial reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after unpredictable time periods is a __________-________ schedule.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Variable-Interval

  • fixed-ratio

  • fixed-interval

  • variable-ratio

Explicação

Questão 12 de 20

1

a medieval proverb notes that "a burnt child dreads the fire." In operant conditioning, the burning would be an example of a

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • primary reinforcer

  • negative reinforcer

  • punisher

  • positive reinforcer

Explicação

Questão 13 de 20

1

Which research showed that conditioning can occur even when the unconditioned stimulus does not immediately follow the neutral stimulus?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The Little Albert experiment

  • Pavlov's experiments with dogs

  • Watson's behaviorism studies

  • Garcia and Koelling's taste-aversion studies

Explicação

Questão 14 de 20

1

Taste-aversion research has shown that some animals develop aversions to certain tastes but not to sights or sounds. this finding supports

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Pavlov's demonstration of generalizaation

  • Darwin's principle that natural selection favors traits that aid survival

  • Watson's belief that psychologists should study observable behavior, not mentalistic concepts

  • the early behaviorists' view that any organism can be conditioned to any stimulus

Explicação

Questão 15 de 20

1

Evidence that cognitive processes play an important role in learning comes in part from studies in which rats

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • spontaneously recover previously learned behavior

  • develop cognitive maps

  • exhibit respondent behavior

  • generalize responses

Explicação

Questão 16 de 20

1

Parents are most effective in getting their children to imitate them if

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • their words and actions are consistent

  • they have outgoing personalities

  • one parent works and the other stays home to care for the children

  • they carefully explain why a behavior is acceptable in adults, but not in children

Explicação

Questão 17 de 20

1

Most experts agree that repeated viewing of TV violence

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • makes all viewers significantly more aggressive

  • has little effect on viewers

  • dulls viewers sensitivity to violence

  • makes viewers angry and frusterated

Explicação

Questão 18 de 20

1

rats that explored a maze without any reward were alter able to run the maze as well as other rats that had received food rewards for running the maze. the rats that had learned without reinforcement demonstrated _____________

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • punishment

  • Shaping

  • Latent learning

  • pro-social behavior

Explicação

Questão 19 de 20

1

Children learn many social behaviors by imitating parents and other models. this type of learning is called

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • behaviorism

  • Observational learning

  • respondent behavior

  • modeling

Explicação

Questão 20 de 20

1

Some scientists believe that the brain has __________ that enable observation and imitation

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • cognitive maps

  • Mirror neurons

  • reinforcement schedules

  • pro-social behaviors

Explicação