Time MCQs

Question 1

What is periodic timing?

A) Learning to response after a specific interval of time
B) Learning to respond at a particular time of day
C) Learning to respond at a specific time of day
D) Learning to respond to day/night cycles

Answer 1

B) Learning to respond at a particular time of day

Question 2

What is interval timing?

A) Learning to response after a specific interval of time
B) Learning to respond at a particular time of day
C) Learning to respond at a specific time of day
D) Learning to respond to day/night cycles

Answer 2

A) Learning to response after a specific interval of time

Question 3

What did Roberts (1965) when studying periodic timings with cockroaches?

A) When they added visual cues for the cockroaches to follow, their day cycles changed from 15 hours to our 24hr clock
B) When they added visual cues for the cockroaches to follow, their day cycles could be changed to follow 15hr days instead of 24hr
C) When removed visual cues the cockroaches cycle changed from 15hour to 24hrs
D) When removed visual cues, the cockroaches cycle could be changed to follow 15hr days instead of 24hr

Answer 3

D) When removed visual cues, the cockroaches cycle could be changed to follow 15hr days instead of 24hr

Question 4

What did Bolles & Stokes (1965) find?

A) When splitting rats into either 19, 24, 29 hr cycles, all could learn to predict food timings
B) When splitting rats into either 19, 24, 29 hr cycles, none of them could learn to predict food timings
C) When splitting rats into either 19, 24, 29 hr cycles, only the 24hr could learn to predict food timings
D) When splitting rats into either 19, 24, 29 hr cycles, only the 29hr could learn to predict food timings

Answer 4

C) When splitting rats into either 19, 24, 29 hr cycles, only the 24hr could learn to predict food timings

Question 5

What physiological system was said to have impact on 24hr clock?

A) Hypothalmis intercessor (HPI)
B) Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)
C) Transent nucleus amygdala (TNA)
D) None of the above

Answer 5

B) Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)

Question 6

How can the Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) influence the day/night cycle?

A) Can determine when the sun sets/rises
B) Uses the sleep cycle
C) The metabolic rate varies in day/night cycle
D) Lesions affect the ability of sleeping

Answer 6

C) The metabolic rate varies in day/night cycle

Question 7

What is Weber’s law?

A) The just noticeable difference when you change a stimulus, is proportional to the intensity of the changed stimulus
B) The just noticeable difference when you change a stimulus, is disproportional to the intensity of the change stimulus
C) The just noticeable difference when you keep a stimulus consistent, is proportional to the intensity of the change stimulus
D) The just noticeable difference when you keep a stimulus consistent, is disproportional to the intensity of the change stimulus

Answer 7

A) The just noticeable difference when you change a stimulus, is proportional to the intensity of the changed stimulus

Question 8

What is more important than absolute change?

A) The just discriminable change
B) The original intensity
C) The percentage change
D) The constant

Answer 8

C) The percentage change

Question 9

Which of the below is NOT an aspect of Scalar Timing Theory (Gibbon, Church, Meck, 1984)?

A) Pacemaker
B) Working memory
C) Reference memory
D) Comparator
E) Response time

Answer 9

E) Response time

Question 10

Which of the below is NOT a process involved in Scalar timing theory?

A) Storing duration of a stimulus in short term memory
B) Strong duration of a stimulus in the working memory
C) Storing duration of a stimulus in
Reference memory
D) Using stored value in reference memory to decide whether or not to respond on the next trial

Answer 10

B) Strong duration of a stimulus in the working memory

Question 11

What is the best description of what occurs in process 1 (duration of stimulus in STM)?

A) When the reinforcement occurs,
pulses stop accumulating
B) This storage is not completely
accurate as there is some memory
distortion.
C) After several trials there will be several
numbers stored in reference memory
D) Within 5-sec stimulus, successive pulses are stored in working memory

Answer 11

D) Within 5-sec stimulus, successive pulses are stored in working memory

Question 12

What first happens within process 2 (duration of stimulus in reference memory)?

A) When the reinforcement occurs,
pulses stop accumulating and are stored
B) On each trial the animal compares the
number of pulses in working memory
C) Random values are drawn from
those stored in reference memory
D) None of the above

Answer 12

A) When the reinforcement occurs,
pulses stop accumulating and are stored

Question 13

Why is reference memory storage not considered very accurate?

A) Inference ability
B) Memory distortion
C) Accuracy differences
D) Temporal speed

Answer 13

B) Memory distortion

Question 14

What occurs at the end of process 2?

A) After only one trial there will be adequate information stored
B) After only one trial there will be single number stored
C) After several trials there will be several
numbers stored in reference memory
D) None of the above, process 2 does not end, it consistently occurs

Answer 14

C) After several trials there will be several
numbers stored in reference memory

Question 15

What occurs in process 3?

A) A switch allows the number
of pulses in working memory
to be stored in reference memory
B) Pacemaker emits pulses at a
roughly constant rate
C) When a stimulus is presented, a
switch is operated, and the pulses
are allowed to accumulate in
working memory
D) On each trial, it compares the number of pulses in working memory with a random value drawn from those stored in reference memory

Answer 15

D) On each trial, it compares the number of pulses in working memory with a random value drawn from those stored in reference memory

Question 16

What does the Comparator do?

A) Works out how close the values are using a ratio rule
B) Works out how close the values are using a difference rule
C) Works out how close the values are using the Just noticeable difference
D) None of the above, it does not impact process 3

Answer 16

A) Works out how close the values are using a ratio rule

Question 17

What is a problem with Scalar timing theory?

A) It does not account for the Just noticeable difference
B) There is no physiological evidence
C) It is not consistent enough in results
D) It has low temporal accuracy

Answer 17

B) There is no physiological evidence

Question 18

What is the proposed improvement of Scalar timing theory?

A) Instead of a pacemaker, timing can be achieved using a series of oscillators that can be turned on/off
B) Instead of a pacemaker, temporal accuracy can be achieved using individuals mechanisms that are constantly on
C) Instead of a compactor, timing can be achieved using a series of oscillators that can be turned on/off
D) Instead of a compactor, temporal accuracy can be achieved using individuals mechanisms that are constantly on

Answer 18

A) Instead of a pacemaker, timing can be achieved using a series of oscillators that can be turned on/off

Question 19

What is another potential solution to the problems involved with Scalar timing theory?

A) Behavioural theory of timing
B) Activation theory
C) Multiple mechanism theory
D) Intrinsic behaviour occurrence

Answer 19

A) Behavioural theory of timing

Question 20

Which of the below is NOT true of the Behavioural theory of timing?

A) When the animal gets reward, it stimulates behaviour
B) A pulse from an internal pacemaker will change the behaviour from one type to another
C) Behaviour that is occurring when the next
reinforcer occurs becomes a signal for that reinforcer.
D) Both A and B

Answer 20

D) Both A and B

Question 21

What is another potential problem with Scalar timing theory?

A) It does not account for the Just noticeable difference
B) Conditioning and timing occur at the same time but are controlled by different mechanisms
C) It is not consistent enough in results
D) It has low temporal accuracy

Answer 21

B) Conditioning and timing occur at the same time but are controlled by different mechanisms