Psychologists & Experiments

What did Bandura’s Bobo doll experiment show about children's behavior?

• Children ignore violence in media

• Children are born with aggression

• Children imitate aggressive behavior they observe

• Children become violent when alone

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In the Bobo doll experiment, what was the main method of learning?

• Operant Conditioning

• Repetition

• Observation and imitation

• Classical conditioning

In Pavlov's classical conditioning experiment, what was the unconditioned stimulus (UCS)?

• Bell

• Salivation

• Dog

• Food

What was the key finding from B.F. Skinner’s box experiment with rats and pigeons?

• Animals respond only to natural instincts

• Punishment is the best way to teach

• Behavior increases when reinforced with rewards

• Observation has no effect on learning

In Skinner's experiment, what device delivered food when the animal pressed a lever?

• Operant controller

• Reward machine

• Skinner box

• Behavior box

What did Edward Thorndike’s puzzle box experiment show?

• Animals learn by copying each other

• Cats escape faster after successful trials

• Conditioning happens instantly

• Learning stops once a reward is given

What concept did Thorndike's experiment help develop?

• Social learning

• Classical conditioning

• Law of effect

• Taste aversion

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What did Watson’s “Little Albert” experiment demonstrate?

• Babies learn language through rewards

• Emotions can be classically conditioned

• Memory improves with age

• Children always fear loud noises

What was the main finding from John Garcia’s taste aversion studies with rats?

• Taste aversion requires many pairings

• Animals can link taste with illness after one trial

• Taste aversion only works with sight, not taste

• Rats respond best to physical punishment

What did Pavlov discover through his experiment with dogs?

• Dogs naturally salivate when they hear a bell, even without training

• Dogs can learn to associate a neutral stimulus with food through repeated pairings

• Dogs respond better to rewards than punishments

• Dogs are more likely to learn behaviors by observing other animals