Top 80+ Solved Learning and Behaviour MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Environmental stimuli can acquire the ability to produce an internal drive state. Hull called these
a. environmental drives
b. acquired drives
c. conditioned drives
d. unconditioned drives
Q. Habit strength increases based on
a. incentive induction
b. drive reduction
c. inhibition induction
d. behavioral induction
Q. When a response continues to fail to produce drive reduction, it is permanently suppressed via
a. reactive inhibition
b. latent inhibition
c. conditioned inhibition
d. higher order inhibition
Q. Crespi's findings regarding the effect of reward magnitude on running speed forced Hull to proposethat
a. reward magnitude directly influences motivation
b. reward magnitude has no effect on motivation
c. shifts in reward result in forgetting
d. learning is reduced with large reward
Q. According to Amsel, the extinction of an instrumental response is due to
a. anger
b. frustration
c. repression
d. anxiety
Q. In Mowrer's two-factor theory of avoidance learning, the two factors are
a. vicarious learning and classical conditioning
b. instrumental conditioning and operant conditioning
c. classical conditioning and pavlovian conditioning
d. classical conditioning and instrumental (or operant) conditioning
Q. Guthrie believed that all learning is
a. s-r associations reinforced by drive reduction
b. s-r associations based on contiguity
c. s-s associations based on reinforcement
d. s-s associations based on contiguity
Q. Which traditional theorist believed that behavior involves purpose, goals, and expectations?
a. tolman
b. hull
c. thorndike
d. skinner
Q. Spence's anticipatory goal concept is comparable to Tolman's
a. cathexis
b. cognitive map
c. equivalence belief principle
d. law of effect
Q. Which traditional learning theorist believed that the use of hypothetical constructs does notcontribute to our understanding of behavior?
a. hull
b. skinner
c. tolman
d. rotter
Q. Guthrie rejected Thorndike's
a. law of exercise
b. law of readiness
c. law of equivalence
d. law of effect
Q. According to Tolman, reward is not required for learning but is required for
a. extinction
b. performance
c. memory
d. direction
Q. Instrumental aversive conditioning involves
a. escape training
b. punishment training
c. avoidance training
d. all of the above
Q. Once exposed to an aversive situation, learning a response that removes the aversive situationinvolves
a. avoidance learning
b. escape learning
c. stimulus discrimination
d. response generalization
Q. According to Skinner, a reinforcer is any event that
a. increases a behavior
b. decreases a behavior
c. makes a person happy
d. is satisfying