What happens in negative reinforcement?
Correct answer A. An aversive stimulus is removed
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Psychology MCQs
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What is improvement that continues without any further practice called?
Correct answer A. Reminiscence
What does the law of effect suggest?
Correct answer D. In addition to practice there must be reinforcement
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In our society, money is an example of what?
Correct answer C. Secondary reinforcer
A child who wins a game and earns the approval of friends is receiving which kind of reinforcement?
Correct answer D. Both B and C
Which condition is essential for classical conditioning to occur?
Correct answer C. The CS is originally neutral
Similarity is to difference as generalisation is to what?
Correct answer B. Discrimination
What happens when the conditioned stimulus (CS) is presented repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus (UCS)?
Correct answer C. Extinction
Studying in order to avoid a bad grade is an example of what?
Correct answer A. Negative reinforcement
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The Law of Effect deals with the influence of what on behaviour?
Correct answer A. Rewards and punishment
What is the process of observing and copying other people’s behaviour called?
Correct answer D. Modelling
Who carried out the first systematic study of operant conditioning, published in 1938?
Correct answer D. B. F. Skinner
Which reinforcement schedule produces the lowest rate of performance?
Correct answer B. Fixed-interval schedule
Who wrote the major work ‘Animal Intelligence’?
Correct answer B. Thorndike
What is the procedure called in which only some of the correct responses are reinforced?
Correct answer C. Partial reinforcement
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According to B. F. Skinner, what mainly controls human behaviour?
Correct answer B. External influences
According to operant conditioning theory, what controls behaviour?
Correct answer D. Its consequences
In Pavlov’s experiments, what was the dog’s salivation in response to the taste of food?
Correct answer B. Unconditioned response
In Pavlov’s experiments, what was the dog’s salivation at the sound of the bell?
Correct answer B. Conditioned response
For most people, what role do personal insults, fines and headaches play in conditioning?
Correct answer A. Negative reinforcers