Learning in Psychology Quiz | Learning in Psychology Multiple Choice Questions and Answers
Questions
1
In Operant conditioning procedure, the role of reinforcement is:
Answer: Very insignificant
2
Current positive reinforcement requires the individual to imagine performing a particular task or behaviour followed by a:
Answer: Positive Consequence
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3
A very useful principle of learning is that a new response is strengthened by:
Answer: Reinforcement
4
The continuous reinforcement schedule is generally used:
Answer: In early stages of training
5
Respondents are elicited and operants are not elicited but they are:
Answer: Emitted spontaneously
6
Which schedule of reinforcement does not specify any fixed number, rather states the requirement in terms of an average?
Answer: Variable Ratio Schedule
7
Under conditions of variable ratio schedule, the only sensible way to obtain more rein-forcements is through emitting:
Answer: Greater number of responses
8
In which schedule of reinforcement, the delay intervals vary as per a previously decided plan?
Answer: Variable Interval Schedule
9
In case of continuous reinforcement, we get the least resistance to extinction and the:
Answer: Smallest response rate during training
10
Which type of learning tells us what to do with the world and applies to what is com-monly called habit formation?
Answer: Instrumental Learning
12
According to Guthrie, forgetting is not a matter of decay of old impressions and associations but:
Answer: A result of inhibition of old connections by new ones
13
According to Hullian theory, under the pressure of needs and drives, the organism undertakes:
Answer: Adaptive actions
14
Hull believes that no conditioning will take place unless there is:
Answer: Food
15
The hypothetico-deductive system in geo¬metry was developed by:
Answer: Pieri
16
Whenever behaviour is not correlated to any specific eliciting stimuli, it is:
Answer: Operant Behaviour
17
According to Skinnerian theory, the “S” type of conditioning applies to:
Answer: Respondent Behaviour
18
Who stated that appetites and aversions are “states of agitation”?
Answer: E. C. Tolman
19
Dollard and Miller related Thorndike’s spread of effect to the:
Answer: Gradient of reinforcement
20
Miller and Dollard are more concerned with:
Answer: Social factor in learning
