Quiz: Ultimate Psychology Questions For Students!

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1.

Which of the following approaches is relevent to studying the mind?
- A.
  
  Neuroscientific investigations: Brain imaging and recording (with introspection or task performance)
- B.
  
  Lesion studies: malfunctioning of the brain/mind
- C.
  
  Modeling: Computer simulations of human performance
- D.
  
  Comparative: Performance comparison across age groups and species
- E.
  
  All of the Above
Correct Answer
E. All of the Above

Explanation
Each of these has a place in Psychological testing

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2.

"An effect of the environment mediated by a sensory system" is a definition of...
- A.
  
  Learning
- B.
  
  Experience
- C.
  
  Environment
- D.
  
  Cognition
- E.
  
  Sensory Perception
Correct Answer
B. Experience

Explanation
This is the definition of experience presented in lecture 1

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3.

An adaptive process where the tendency to perform a specific behaviour, emotion, and/or thought is changed by experience is a definition of...?
- A.
  
  Learning
- B.
  
  Experience
- C.
  
  Environment
- D.
  
  Cognition
- E.
  
  Adaptation
Correct Answer
A. Learning

Explanation
Other Definitions include:
A more or less permanent change in behaviour potentiality
which occurs as a result of repeated practice

Change in a subject’s behaviour or behaviour potential to a
given situation brought about by the subject’s repeated
experience in that situation

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4.

Habituation can be thought of as...
- A.
  
  Being unresponsive to stimulation
- B.
  
  A response that is learned and my be hard to unlearn
- C.
  
  A "getting used to it" response
- D.
  
  Learning that a response is not needed or is redundant
- E.
  
  Basically a habit
Correct Answer
C. A "getting used to it" response

Explanation
In habituation the organism learns that the stimulus requires no attention and has no significance. The organism "gets used to it"

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5.

A Novel stimulus is likely to lead to...
- A.
  
  An orienting response - increased heart rate, head turn towards stimulus, attending to stimulus by organism
- B.
  
  An orienting response - decreased heart rate, head turn towards stimulus, attending to stimulus by organism
- C.
  
  An orienting response - decreased heart rate, head turn away from stimulus, attending to stimulus by organism
- D.
  
  A Conditioned Response (CR)
- E.
  
  An Unconditioned Response (UR)
Correct Answer
B. An orienting response - decreased heart rate, head turn towards stimulus, attending to stimulus by organism

Explanation
An organism attends to a novel stimulus and shows an orienting response

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6.

An organism has “learned” that a stimulus has no special significance.
- A.
  
  Attenuation has taken place
- B.
  
  Moderation has taken place
- C.
  
  Habituation has taken place
- D.
  
  Mediation has taken place
- E.
  
  Orientation has taken place
Correct Answer
C. Habituation has taken place

Explanation
This is habituation

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7.

Which of the following is not correct about habituation...
- A.
  
  Allows an organism to learn that a stimulus is not significant, and therefore doesn’t have to be distracted by petty events
- B.
  
  Is the simplest form of learning
- C.
  
  Is adaptive
- D.
  
  Is observable in nearly every animal, even slugs and snails
- E.
  
  Is the simplest form of associative learning
Correct Answer
E. Is the simplest form of associative learning

Explanation
Habituation is not a form of associative learning (i.e, learning is not a result of forming associations)

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8.

Behaviour is independent of
- A.
  
  Internal states
- B.
  
  The organism
- C.
  
  Environmental demands
- D.
  
  Experimenter's cognition
- E.
  
  All of the above
Correct Answer
D. Experimenter's cognition
9.

Changes in behaviour that are due to associative learning include
- A.
  
  Habituation
- B.
  
  Fatigue or Changes due to physiological or motivational state
- C.
  
  Innate response tendencies (reflexes, instincts)
- D.
  
  Maturation (regular stages, unaffected by practice)
- E.
  
  None of these
Correct Answer
E. None of these

Explanation
None of these are due to associative learning - no associations have been made. (Slide 35, page 6 / 7)

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10.

Which of these is unlikely to be included in a definition of Learning
- A.
  
  There is a change (may be invisible - thus the “behaviour potential”)
- B.
  
  Change is lasting
- C.
  
  Experience and practice effects
- D.
  
  Learning situation is important
- E.
  
  Response may be ambiguous
Correct Answer
E. Response may be ambiguous

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Quiz: Ultimate Psychology Questions For Students!

Which of the following approaches is relevent to studying the mind?

"An effect of the environment mediated by a sensory system" is a definition of...

An adaptive process where the tendency to perform a specific behaviour, emotion, and/or thought is changed by experience is a definition of...?

Habituation can be thought of as...

A Novel stimulus is likely to lead to...

An organism has “learned” that a stimulus has no special significance.

Which of the following is not correct about habituation...

Behaviour is independent of

Changes in behaviour that are due to associative learning include

Which of these is unlikely to be included in a definition of Learning