Learning 1 MCQs

Question 1

What is the best description of a Stimulus?

A) An event that happens out of our control
B) An event that happens to us
C) An event that happens to others
D) An event that is purely external

Answer 1

B) An event that happens to us

Question 2

What is considered the best definition of ‘Learning’?

A) Persistent change in behaviour as a result of experience
B) Varying change in behaviour as a result of experience
C) Persistent change in behaviour as a result of current events
D) Varying change in behaviour as a result of current events

Answer 2

A) Persistent change in behaviour as a result of experience

Question 3

What did Tinbergen and Lorenz find when studying Herring gulls?

A) There was no colour preference for pecking
B) There was a preference for only red spots on the beak for pecking behaviours
C) There was a preference for only black spots on the beak for pecking behaviours
D) There was a preference for both red and black spots compared to no spot for pecking behaviours

Answer 3

C) There was a preference for only black spots on the beak for pecking behaviours

Question 4

What is a sign stimulus?

A) Elicits the response
B) Inhibits the response
C) Stereotyped response pattern
D) Unusual response pattern

Answer 4

A) Elicits the response

Question 5

What is a key aspect of long term habituation?

A) Reduced response disappears
B) Reduced response remains
C) Response recovers after delay
D) Response does not recover

Answer 5

B) Reduced response remains

Question 6

How is habituation not considered associative learning?

A) The associations formed are not changed
B) There are no associations created
C) No new associations are formed
D) There are reduced responses with associations

Answer 6

C) No new associations are formed

Question 7

What does this best describe?
“Predicts what will happen, stimulus predicts stimulus, the learned CR is involuntary”

A) Habituation
B) Extinction
C) Instrumental conditioning
D) Classical conditioning

Answer 7

D) Classical conditioning

Question 8

Which of the below is NOT an aspect of Instrumental conditioning?

A) Response only predicts a stimulus
B) Controls what will happen
C) No rational or goal directed responses
D) Voluntary response

Answer 8

C) No rational or goal directed responses

Question 9

Which of the below are reasons why you can’t control experience in classical conditioning?
(Select all that apply)

A) Can control which stimuli are paired but not that the animal will experience them
B) Can pair two stimuli but can’t remove all other stimuli
C) Cannot control the animals innate feelings towards the stimuli
D) None of the above, you can control all aspects of classical conditioning

Answer 9

A) Can control which stimuli are paired but not that the animal will experience them
B) Can pair two stimuli but can’t remove all other stimuli

Question 10

What was found in omission training?

A) You cannot override a classically conditioned response with a voluntary instrumental response
B) You cannot override an instrumentally conditioned response with a voluntary instrumental response
C) You can override a classically conditioned response with a voluntary instrumental response
D) You can override an instrumentally conditioned response with a voluntary instrumental response

Answer 10

C) You can override a classically conditioned response with a voluntary instrumental response

Question 11

What occurs within an unlearned association?

A) Experiencing a stimuli triggers no response
B) Experiencing a stimuli automatically triggers a response
C) Experiencing a stimuli delays the triggering of a response
D) Experiencing a stimuli encourages learning the expected response

Answer 11

B) Experiencing a stimuli automatically triggers a response

Question 12

What is an example of a stimuli that can automatically elicit unlearned unconditioned responses?

A) Condiitoned stimuli
B) Unconditioned stimuli
C) Novel stimuli
D) None of the above, UC responses cannot occur without an appropriate stimuli

Answer 12

B) Unconditioned stimuli

Question 13

Why do UC elicit unconditioned responses?

A) They have intrinsic value
B) They have extrinsic value
C) They have motivational value
D) They have social value

Answer 13

C) They have motivational value

Question 14

What happens when the UCS is perceived?

A) Activation of mental representations
B) Corresponding thinking patterns are enabled
C) Inferior patterns of mental activity occur
D) Interior patterns of neural activity occur

Answer 14

A) Activation of mental representations

Question 15

How is classical conditioning reflected in the mind?

A) The two mental representations becomes simultaneously activated
B) The two mental representations become independently activated
C) The two mental representations becomes simultaneously activated and mentally associated
D) The two mental representations become independently activated but are now mentally associated

Answer 15

C) The two mental representations becomes simultaneously activated and mentally associated

Question 16

What is considered an indirect elicitation of UR?

A) Conditioned responses
B) Unconditioned responses
C) Novel responses
D) None of the above

Answer 16

A) Conditioned responses

Question 17

What is an example of Autoshaping?

A) Using pellet incentives to encourage pressing a lever
B) Pairing a key light with food production in which pecking happens spontaneously
C) Pairing a key light with food production in which pecking is controlled
D) Both A and C

Answer 17

B) Pairing a key light with food production in which pecking happens spontaneously

Question 18

What can affect the CR?

A) Time food is displayed for
B) Type of food
C) Physical properties of the food
D) Amount of food

Answer 18

C) Physical properties of the food

Question 19

What is the best description of Evaluative Conditioning?

A) A conditioned response is transferred to the associative stimulus
B) An unconditioned response is transferred to the associative stimulus
C) A conditioned response is transferred to a non associative stimulus
D) An unconditioned response is transferred to a non associative stimulus

Answer 19

B) An unconditioned response is transferred to the associative stimulus

Question 20

What did Thorndike believe?

A) All extinction of learning requires only a reinforcer, not a response but it is between stimulus and response
B) All extinction of learning requires a reinforcer and response but it is between stimulus and response
C) All learning requires only a reinforcer, not a response but it is between stimulus and response
D) All learning requires a reinforcer and response but it is between stimulus and response

Answer 20

D) All learning requires a reinforcer and response but it is between stimulus and response

Question 21

What does the conditioned inhibitor signal?

A) Omission of the US
B) Omission of the CR
C) Omission of the UCR
D) Omission of the S

Answer 21

A) Omission of the US