MCQ Bank
___________ theory proposed that child development is dependent on his/her interaction with more expert adults and his/her culture.
- A) Socio-cultural
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In _____________ processing, individual is able to notice different parts of sensations and then making whole of it.
- A) Bottom right
- B) Bottom up
- C) Bottom left
- D) Bottom down
Psychologist treat phobias by using learning.
- A) Enactive
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Asma, 4th grade student always completes her work in time. Her teacher always pats on her shoulder after checking her work. Identify the positive reinforcer in this situation.
- A) Checking her work
- B) Smile of the teacher
- C) Pat on shoulder
- D) Completion of tasks
__________ is defined as values, norms, and traditions that guide and determine the behavior of a group of people.
- A) Culture
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In _______________memory, we are able to consciously recall the information such as facts, figures, mathematical symbols etc.
- A) Procedural
- B) Short-term
- C) Implicit
- D) Declarative
Let’s suppose children are able to speak and read in both Urdu and English languages. This is referred to as:
- A) Bilingualism
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A teacher praises her student by giving a star on the note book as student performs well in the class; she is more likely to use______________.
- A) Association
- B) Reinforcement
- C) Extinction
- D) Shaping
Which of the following lobe of brain is involved in movement, decision-making, problem solving and planning?
- A) Frontal lobe
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If a student wants to hold few information regarding historical events; what would be the first step in the process of memorizing?
- A) Control process
- B) Encoding
- C) Storage
- D) Retrieval
When an experiment is conducted on only one subject; it is referred as ____________.
- A) Single subject experimental design
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Which of the following behavioral technique is involved in reinforcing successively closer approximations to a behavior until the occurrence of a correct behavior?
- A) Shaping
- B) Reinforcement
- C) Prompting
- D) Chaining
__________________ is the final stage of Piaget theory which begins at 11 years of age and continues up to adulthood.
- A) Formal operational
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Noman, an eighth grade student, thinks “No matter how hard I study for this test, I’ll always get a bad grade.” His thinking reflects _______________.
- A) Low academic achievement
- B) Lack of confidence
- C) Peer pressure
- D) Learned helplessness
Roads, bridges, and overhead are the examples of which type of culture?
- A) Material
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Bandura believed that human functioning is a product of the mutual interaction of environment, person, and __________.
- A) Cognition
- B) Learning
- C) Heredity
- D) Behavior
All of the followings are the characteristics of an expert student except
- A) They get easily distracted from the studies
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____________ is the initial processing that transforms incoming stimuli into information so we can make sense of them.
- A) Sensory memory
- B) Long term memory
- C) Short term memory
- D) Iconic memory
When we use different procedures to solve a particular problem we are more likely to use knowledge:
- A) Conditional
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_______________ is defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior due to past experiences.
- A) Learning
- B) Forgetting
- C) Perception
- D) Memory