Top 80+ Solved Learning and Behaviour MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Operant conditioning...
a. uses \paired stimuli\ to make products and/or services more desirable
b. uses positive and negative reinforcement to change attitudes and behaviour
c. measures attitudes towards a certain subject
d. changes beliefs
Q. Operant conditioning forms an association between a behavior and a consequence. Theconsequences are:
a. something good can start or be presented; something good can end or be taken away
b. something bad can start or be presented; something bad can end or be taken away.
c. constant reinforcement
d. both a & b
Q. In Pavlov's Dog's, which of these is the conditioned stimuli?
a. bell
b. food
c. saliva
d. attendant
Q. Businesses can use operant conditioning to continuously reward consumers for patronage via:
a. reward cards
b. constant low prices
c. special competitions
d. both a & b
Q. Which one is not an intermittentreinforcement?
a. one off\s
b. sales promotions
c. special competitions
d. constant low prices
Q. Which theorists originated the Insight learning theory and Social learning theory
a. bandura and hull
b. kohler and bandura
c. hull and guthrie
d. thorndike and kohler
Q. Which theory advocates mentoring, apprenticeship, or on the job training, and internships?
a. conditions of learning theory
b. theory of social cognitive development
c. social learning theory
d. insight learning
Q. Which of the following assumptions are incorrect, according to Social-Cognitive theorists?
a. people can learn through observing others.
b. learning doesn\t always result in an immediate change.
c. people set goals for themselves and strive to achieve their goals.
d. people will learn something only if reinforcing or punishing consequences follow their behavior.
Q. What kind of reinforcement should you use if you want to a response to last without reinforcementlong after it’s been learned through operant conditioning?
a. continuous
b. intermittent
c. either a and b
d. neither a nor b
Q. What is the tendency to respond to a new stimulus as if it’s the original conditioned stimulus?
a. stimulus discrimination
b. stimulus generalization
c. higher-order conditioning
d. spontaneous recovery
Q. A student sometimes got A’s on his midterm exams last year when he used his green pen to write the exams. Now he always takes his lucky green pens to exams. How did the student’s superstitiousbehavior arise?
a. observational learning
b. classical conditioning
c. operant conditioning
d. none of the above
Q. A scalloped response pattern, in which responses are slow at the beginning of a time period andthen faster just before reinforcement happens, is typical of which type of reinforcement schedule?
a. fixed ratio
b. variable ratio
c. fixed interval
d. variable interval