Modules 29-30 Quiz

When parents offer good grade rewards to children who already enjoys studying, they may find that the children no longer enjoy studying and only enjoy the rewards. Which of the following have the parents accidentally removed from their children?

• Latent learning

• Extrinsic motivation

• Intrinsic motivation

• Insight learning

• Emotion-focused coping

Which ability is likely to predict good adjustment, better grades, and social success?

• Self-control

• an eternal locus of control

• problem-focused coping

• learned helplessness

• emotion-focused coping

Elephants appear to have excellent _____ because they can remember large sections of their territory.

• latent learning

• insight

• cognitive maps

• extrinsic motivation

• mirror neurons

The perception that we control our own fate is also called what?

• self-control

• learned helplessness

• internal locus of control

• external locus of control

• emotion-focused coping

A woman had been pondering a problem for days and was about to give up when, suddenly, the solution came to her. Her experience can be best described as what?

• cognitive mapping

• inisght

• operant conditioning

• classical conditioning

• unconscious associate learning

Describe how each of the following can show the impact of cognition on operant conditioning - Latent learning, insight learning, and Intrinsic motivation

Bandura's famous Bobo doll experiment is most closely associated with which of the following?

• Latent learning

• Classical conditioning

• Operant conditioning

• Cognitive maps

• Observational learning

Which of the following processes is the best term for explaining how we learn languages?

• Biofeedback

• Discrimination

• Modeling

• Insight

• Creativity

Which if the following is the most likely consequence of the brain's tendency to vicariously experience something we observe?

• Actual psychical injury

• The risk of misremembering our own actions

• Interference with associative learning

• The elimination of classically conditioned responses to stimuli

• A confusion between reinforcers and rewards in an operant conditioning setting

After observing his sibling walk across a balance beam, Joe's brain reacts in a way that will enable him to imitate the action later. Which part of his brain may be responsible for this?

• Reward system

• Somatosensory system

• Mirror nuerons

• Motor cortex

• Aggression areas