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