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1
In Operant conditioning procedure, the role of reinforcement is:
A
Very insignificant
B
Negligible
C
Strikingly significant
D
None of the above
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Answer: Very insignificant
2
Current positive reinforcement requires the individual to imagine performing a particular task or behaviour followed by a:
A
Positive Consequence
B
Zero consequence
C
Negative consequence
D
Neutral consequence
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Answer: Positive Consequence
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3
A very useful principle of learning is that a new response is strengthened by:
A
Reinforcement
B
Discriminative Stimulus
C
Punishment
D
Biofeedback
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4
The continuous reinforcement schedule is generally used:
A
In the last part of training
B
In early stages of training
C
In the middle period of training
D
In both last and first part of training
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Answer: In early stages of training
5
Respondents are elicited and operants are not elicited but they are:
A
Temporary responses
B
Permanent responses
C
Emitted spontaneously
D
None of the above
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Answer: Emitted spontaneously
6
Which schedule of reinforcement does not specify any fixed number, rather states the requirement in terms of an average?
A
Variable Ratio Schedule
B
Variable Interval Schedule
C
Fixed Interval Schedule
D
None of the above
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Answer: Variable Ratio Schedule
7
Under conditions of variable ratio schedule, the only sensible way to obtain more rein-forcements is through emitting:
A
Greater number of responses
B
50% responses
C
Less number of responses
D
90% responses
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Answer: Greater number of responses
8
In which schedule of reinforcement, the delay intervals vary as per a previously decided plan?
A
Variable Interval Schedule
B
Fixed Interval Schedule
C
Fixed Ratio Schedule
D
Variable Ratio Schedule
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Answer: Variable Interval Schedule
9
In case of continuous reinforcement, we get the least resistance to extinction and the:
A
90% response rate during training
B
Smallest response rate during training
C
Highest response rate during training
D
None of the above
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Answer: Smallest response rate during training
10
Which type of learning tells us what to do with the world and applies to what is com-monly called habit formation?
A
Classical Conditioning
B
Instrumental Learning
C
Insightful Learning
D
Latent Learning
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Answer: Instrumental Learning
11
Who said that any act is a movement but not vice versa?
A
Guthrie
B
C. Hull
C
J.B. Watson
D
E. L. Thorndike
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12
According to Guthrie, forgetting is not a matter of decay of old impressions and associations but:
A
A result of discrimination
B
A result of disinhibitions of old connec¬tions
C
A result of inhibition of old connections by new ones
D
None of the above
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Answer: A result of inhibition of old connections by new ones
13
According to Hullian theory, under the pressure of needs and drives, the organism undertakes:
A
Transfer of training
B
Learning by foresight
C
Adaptive actions
D
None of the above
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14
Hull believes that no conditioning will take place unless there is:
A
Secondary Reinforcement
B
Need Reduction
C
Food
D
None of the above
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15
The hypothetico-deductive system in geo¬metry was developed by:
A
E. C. Tolman
B
Pieri
C
I.P. Pavlov
D
C. Hull
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16
Whenever behaviour is not correlated to any specific eliciting stimuli, it is:
A
Operant Behaviour
B
Modified Behaviour
C
Respondent Behaviour
D
None of the above
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Answer: Operant Behaviour
17
According to Skinnerian theory, the “S” type of conditioning applies to:
A
Respondent Behaviour
B
Operant Behaviour
C
Modified Behaviour
D
None of the above
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Answer: Respondent Behaviour
18
Who stated that appetites and aversions are “states of agitation”?
A
E. C. Tolman
B
Clark Hull
C
E. L. Thorndike
D
None of the above
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19
Dollard and Miller related Thorndike’s spread of effect to the:
A
Principle of preparedness
B
Biological constraints
C
Gradient of reinforcement
D
None of the above
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Answer: Gradient of reinforcement
20
Miller and Dollard are more concerned with:
A
Social factor in learning
B
Personal factors in learning
C
Biological factor in learning
D
None of the above
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Answer: Social factor in learning
