MCQ Bank
Which of the following area is activated by places such as houses, buildings, roads and etc?
- A) Parahippocampal place area
- B) Extra striate body area
- C) Fusiform face area
- D) Infer temporal (IT) cortex
Which of the following is considered as a cutaneous sense?
- A) Sight
- B) Touch
- C) Hearing
- D) Smell
Items that are close together in space or time tend to be perceived as belonging together. This concept is known as:
- A) The law of Similarity
- B) The law of Proximity
- C) The law of Symmetry
- D) The law of Simplicity
The auditory canal connects which of the following parts of the ear?
- A) Inner to Outer
- B) Middle to Inner
- C) Outer to Middle
- D) Outer to Inner
Whenever huma's students behave well, she reduces their amount of homework for that night. This is an example of what aspect of operant conditioning?
- A) Positive reinforcement
- B) Negative reinforcement
- C) Positive punishment
- D) Negative punishment
Which of the following type of reinforcement is used to strengthen a response by presenting a stimulus?
- A) Negative reinforcement
- B) Primary reinforcement
- C) Secondary reinforcement
- D) Positive reinforcement
A response is reduced if it is no longer strengthened, this phenomenon is known as:
- A) Revaluation
- B) Spontaneous recovery
- C) Extinction
- D) Unconditioned response
What term is applied to the random reappearance of a behavior after extinction?
- A) Random acquisition
- B) Unconditioned response
- C) Spontaneous recovery
- D) Generalization
Which of the following sense can be developed by a person?
- A) Smell
- B) Taste
- C) Touch
- D) Sound
A student sometimes got A’s on his midterm exams last year when he used his green pen to write the exams. Now he always takes his lucky green pens to exams. How did the student’s superstitious behavior arise?
- A) Classical conditioning
- B) Visual learning
- C) Observational learning
- D) Operant conditioning
Skinner defines an operant behavior as that which is___________:
- A) A result of S-R associations
- B) Emitted by the organism
- C) Unlearned
- D) Elicited by environmental stimuli
A conditioning in which responses operates on the environment is called:
- A) Observational conditioning
- B) Classical conditioning
- C) Operant conditioning
- D) Respondent conditioning
Operant conditioning is also referred as:
- A) Instrumental conditioning
- B) Conditioning by association
- C) Respondent conditioning
- D) Classical conditioning
Ali's parents give him 50 rupees for allowance every time he finishes doing 2 loads of laundry. This is an example of which kind of reinforcement schedule?
- A) Fixed interval
- B) Variable ratio
- C) Variable interval
- D) Fixed ratio
B.F. Skinner studied operant conditioning through the use of an operant conditioning box, which is also known as what?
- A) Pavlov's box
- B) Conditioning cage
- C) Animal house
- D) Skinner box
In Pavlov’s experiments, the meat acted as a(an):
- A) Conditioned stimulus
- B) Unconditioned response
- C) Conditioned response
- D) Unconditioned stimulus
Which of the following is a central theme of behaviorism?
- A) Majority of behavior is innate and not learnt
- B) Human behavior can be manipulated using food
- C) Majority of behavior is learnt and not innate
- D) Genetics has the strongest influence on human behavior
Hydrochloric acid is found in which of the following type of taste?
- A) Sour
- B) Salty
- C) Bitter
- D) Umami
What is entailed by a fixed-ratio schedule?
- A) Responses are reinforced after a variable number of responses
- B) Responses are reinforced after a specific amount of time
- C) Responses are reinforced after a particular number of responses
- D) Responses are reinforced continuously
Component of quinine forms which of the following taste?
- A) Sweet
- B) Bitter
- C) Umami
- D) Sour