MCQ Bank
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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- C)
- D)
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
- B)
- C)
- D)
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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- D)
_______________ is defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior due to past experiences.
- A) Learning
- B) Forgetting
- C) Perception
- D) Memory
According to Vygotsky, _______________ private speech may lead towards terminal illnesses such as cancer.
- A) Negative
- B)
- C)
- D)
Ahmad told his friend about what he had for breakfast, the movie he saw last night and what he did on vacation last summer. This is an example of _____________.
- A) Procedural memory
- B) Episodic memory
- C) Conditional memory
- D) Semantic memory
Amna pushed Bushra on her way towards the swing and ran speedily to sit on it. This reflects:
- A) Hostile aggression
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______________ refers to the difference in view of males and females that often favors one gender over the other.
- A) Gender uniqueness
- B) Gender role
- C) Gender bias
- D) Gender identity
During __________ aggression, a person inflicts harm on the other person.
- A) Hostile
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- D)
Amir believes that as he is a boy he should express aggressiveness whenever and wherever it is needed. This reflects Amir’s:
- A) Gender Constancy
- B) Gender Schema
- C) Gender Role Identity
- D) Gender Bias
Which of the following process is involved; when an individual observes and replicates another’s behavior?
- A) Imitation
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