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Psychology Learning TEST

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the definition of learning in psychology?

a)

The process of unlearning previously acquired knowledge.

b)

The process of acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or behaviors through experience, study, or teaching.

c)

The process of forgetting information in the brain.

d)

The process of acquiring knowledge through genetic inheritance.

2.

What are the different types of learning?

a)

Classical conditioning, Operant conditioning, Observational learning, Insight learning, Latent learning, Social learning

b)

Classical conditioning, Operant conditioning, Trial and error learning, Insight learning, Latent learning, Social learning

c)

Behavioral conditioning, Cognitive conditioning, Trial and error learning, Insight learning, Latent learning, Social learning

d)

Pavlovian conditioning, Skinnerian conditioning, Cognitive learning, Trial and error learning, Associative learning, Imitative learning

3.

What is classical conditioning?

a)

Type of learning where an organism associates a neutral stimulus with a meaningful stimulus

b)

Type of learning where an organism associates a meaningful stimulus with a neutral stimulus

c)

Type of learning where an organism associates a meaningful stimulus with another meaningful stimulus

d)

Type of learning where an organism associates a neutral stimulus with an unrelated stimulus

4.

What is operant conditioning?

a)

Operant conditioning is a type of learning that focuses on innate behaviors.

b)

Operant conditioning is a type of learning that is only applicable to animals.

c)

Operant conditioning is a type of learning that involves classical conditioning.

d)

Operant conditioning is a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened or weakened by the consequences that follow it.

5.

What is observational learning?

a)

Observational learning is learning that occurs through trial and error.

b)

Observational learning is learning that occurs through listening to lectures and taking notes.

c)

Observational learning is learning that occurs through reading books and articles.

d)

Observational learning is learning that occurs through observing and imitating the behavior of others.

6.

What is the difference between positive and negative reinforcement?

a)

Positive reinforcement involves removing an unpleasant stimulus to increase the likelihood of a behavior occurring again, while negative reinforcement involves providing a reward or incentive to decrease the likelihood of a behavior occurring again.

b)

Positive reinforcement involves punishing a behavior to decrease the likelihood of it occurring again, while negative reinforcement involves rewarding a behavior to increase the likelihood of it occurring again.

c)

Positive reinforcement involves providing a reward or incentive to decrease the likelihood of a behavior occurring again, while negative reinforcement involves removing a pleasant stimulus to increase the likelihood of a behavior occurring again.

d)

Positive reinforcement involves providing a reward or incentive to increase the likelihood of a behavior occurring again, while negative reinforcement involves removing an unpleasant stimulus to increase the likelihood of a behavior occurring again.

7.

What is the concept of shaping in learning?

a)

Shaping is a technique used to punish and discourage behavior.

b)

Shaping is a technique used to ignore and neglect behavior.

c)

Shaping is a technique used to reinforce and gradually guide behavior towards a desired outcome.

d)

Shaping is a technique used to randomly reward behavior.

8.

What is the role of motivation in learning?

a)

Motivation has no impact on learning.

b)

Motivation is essential for learning.

c)

Motivation is a distraction in the learning process.

d)

Motivation is only important for certain subjects.

9.

What are the factors that influence learning?

a)

sleep, diet, exercise, technology, cultural background

b)

intelligence, age, gender, socioeconomic status, physical environment

c)

motivation, prior knowledge, learning environment, teaching methods, individual differences, feedback

d)

luck, astrology, magic, fate, superstition

10.

Who is the "Father" of classical conditioning?

a)

Ivan Pavlov

b)

John Watson

c)

B.F. Skinner

d)

Albert Bandura

11.

Who is the "founder" of behaviorism?

a)

Ivan Pavlov

b)

John Watson

c)

B.F. Skinner

d)

Albert Bandura

12.

What theory did Albert Bandura create?

a)

Classical Coniditioning

b)

Operant Conditioning

c)

Observational Learning

d)

Law of Effect

13.

Getting a free Subway sandwich on your 5th purchase is an example of what?

a)

Fixed- Ratio

b)

Variable Ratio

c)

Fixed interval

d)

Variable Interval

14.

Taking away a students phone

a)

Positive Reinforcer

b)

Negative Reinforcer

c)

Positive Punishment

d)

Negative Punishment

15.

Washing your child's mouth out with soap when they curse

a)

Positive Reinforcer

b)

Negative Reinforcer

c)

Positive Punishment

d)

Negative Punishment

16.

Seat belt chimer

a)

Positive Reinforcer

b)

Negative Reinforcer

c)

Positive Punishment

d)

Negative Punishment

17.

Getting paid to work

a)

Positive Reinforcer

b)

Negative Reinforcer

c)

Positive Punishment

d)

Negative Punishment

18.

The food is what?

a)

Unconditioned stimulus

b)

Conditioned stimulus

c)

Unconditioned response

d)

Conditioned Response

19.

The whistle is what in the second phase?

a)

Unconditioned stimulus

b)

Conditioned stimulus

c)

Neutral

Stimulus

d)

Conditioned Response

20.

What phase of conditioning is shown when the food and whistle are paired?

a)

Acquisition

b)

Generalization

c)

Discrimination

d)

Extinction

21.

Salivation after conditioning is what?

a)

Unconditioned stimulus

b)

Conditioned stimulus

c)

Unconditioned response

d)

Conditioned Response

22.

The whistle after conditioning is what?

a)

Unconditioned stimulus

b)

Conditioned stimulus

c)

Unconditioned response

d)

Conditioned Response

23.

Helpful, generous, and compassionate

a)

Prosocial Behavior

b)

Anti-social behavior

24.

True or false: Extrinsic rewards are better motivators than intrinsic ones?

a)

True

b)

False

25.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

Learning that certain events occur together.  The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequence (as in operant conditioning)

a)

Habituation

b)

Learning

c)

Stimulus

d)

Cognitive Learning

e)

Associative Learning

26.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

In classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus.

a)

Generalization

b)

Extinction

c)

Discrimination

d)

Acquisition

e)

Higher Order Conditioning

27.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.

a)

Extinction

b)

Spontaneous Recovery

c)

Discrimination

d)

Generalization

e)

Higher Order Conditioning

28.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses.

a)

Spontaneous Recovery

b)

Generalization

c)

Discrimination

d)

Acquistion

e)

Higher Order Conditioning

29.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

A procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus.  For example, an animal that has learned that a tone predicts food might then learn that a light predicts the tone and begin responding to the light alone. (Also called second-order conditioning.)

a)

Acquisition

b)

Higher-Order Conditioning

c)

Extinction

d)

Generalization

e)

Discrimination

30.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

The diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus (US) does not follow a conditioned stimulus (CS); occurs in operant conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced.

a)

Discrimination

b)

Generalization

c)

Acquisition

d)

Spontaneous recovery

e)

Extinction

31.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

in classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response.  In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response.

a)

Discrimination

b)

Generalization

c)

Acquisition

d)

Spontaneous Recovery

e)

Extinction

32.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

In classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus (US), comes to trigger a conditioned response (CR).

a)

Neutral Stimulus (NS)

b)

Unconditioned Response (UR)

c)

Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

d)

Conditioned response (CR)

e)

Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

33.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

In classical conditioning, a learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS).

a)

Neutral Stimulus (NS)

b)

Unconditioned Response (UR)

c)

Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

d)

Conditioned response (CR)

e)

Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

34.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning.

a)

Neutral Stimulus (NS)

b)

Unconditioned Response (UR)

c)

Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

d)

Conditioned response (CR)

e)

Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

35.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

An organism’s decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it.

a)

Learning

b)

Habituation

c)

Associative learning

d)

Stimulus

e)

Cognitive Learning

36.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

Any event or situation that evokes a response.

a)

Learning

b)

Habituation

c)

Associative learning

d)

Stimulus

e)

Cognitive Learning

37.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.

a)

Learning

b)

Habituation

c)

Associative learning

d)

Stimulus

e)

Cognitive Learning

38.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

The acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language

a)

Learning

b)

Habituation

c)

Classical Conditioning

d)

Behaviorism

e)

Cognitive Learning

39.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

The view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes.  Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2).

a)

Learning

b)

Habituation

c)

Classical Conditioning

d)

Behaviorism

e)

Cognitive Learning

40.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.

a)

Learning

b)

Habituation

c)

Classical Conditioning

d)

Behaviorism

e)

Cognitive Learning