MCQ Bank
Which of the following food would have umami taste?
- A) Yogurt
- B) Honey
- C) Meat
- D) Milk
Which of the following does NOT cause nociceptive pain?
- A) Severe Pressure
- B) High Temperature
- C) Spinal Cord Injury
- D) Chemical Burn
The top-down process depends on the person’s:
- A) Future Expectation
- B) Current Experience
- C) Past Knowledge
- D) Current Experience and Future Expectation
What is the tendency to respond to a new stimulus as if it’s the original conditioned stimulus?
- A) Stimulus discrimination
- B) Higher-order conditioning
- C) Spontaneous recovery
- D) Stimulus generalization
The intensity of pain is determined by the amount of ______ cells activity.
- A) T
- B) S
- C) R
- D) B
Which of the following is NOT involved in the pathway for olfaction?
- A) Orbitofrontal Cortex
- B) Hippocampus
- C) Piriform Cortex
- D) Amygdala
Classical conditioning is based on the work of which person?
- A) Bowlby
- B) Bandura
- C) Pavlov
- D) Freud
In Pavlov’s experiments, the bell acted as a(an):
- A) Conditioned stimulus
- B) Unconditioned response
- C) Unconditioned stimulus
- D) Conditioned response
Learning may be defined as a ______ change in behavior that occurs as the result of experience.
- A) Continuous
- B) Sensitization
- C) Relatively consistent
- D) Fixed
Which of the following is not a type of human memory system?
- A) Semantic
- B) Syntax
- C) Working
- D) Implicit
The process of retaining, retrieving and using information is called:
- A) Learning
- B) Memory
- C) Retention
- D) Shaping
Attendants must observe teacher to learn how to dance in dancing classes. This example would best relate to which of the following stages of learning?
- A) Reinforcement
- B) Reproduction
- C) Retention
- D) Attention
Baddeley and Hitch (1974) devised which model of memory?
- A) Working memory model
- B) Levels of processing model
- C) Spreading activation model
- D) Situational memory model
The response in classical conditioning is __________ while it is ________ in operant conditioning.
- A) Emitted, elicited
- B) Involuntary, voluntary
- C) Voluntary, automatic
- D) Voluntary, involuntary
Ali left his home, vanished from normal life and take on a new identity. Ali is suffering from which of the following disease?
- A) Infantile amnesia
- B) Anterograde amnesia
- C) Alzheimer
- D) Psychogenic fugue
In our lives much of social learning is occur due to which of the following?
- A) Reinforcement
- B) Punishment
- C) Observation
- D) Memory
Memorizing list of nonsense syllables was practiced by whom?
- A) Copper
- B) Ebbinghaus
- C) Driskell
- D) Willis
Shaping can be a slow, time-consuming process. What is one way to effectively speed up the process?
- A) Each time you increase the criteria for reinforcement, do so by larger increments.
- B) Model the desired response for the individual.
- C) Add a punishment contingency for incorrect responses.
- D) All of these are effective ways to make shaping more efficient.
Which structure of the working memory model is responsible for storing speech sounds for a limited duration?
- A) Episodic buffer
- B) Phonological loop
- C) Sketch pad
- D) Central executive
A systematic process of reinforcing successive approximations to a target behavior is called:
- A) Shaping
- B) Prompting
- C) Chaining
- D) Labeling