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Behaviorism MCQ's
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Behaviourism Multiple Choice Questions
1) The first person to use counterconditioning to treat a phobia was probably
A) Rosalie Rayner
B) Carl Rogers
C) Mary Cover Jones
D) John B. Watson
2) When a behaviour is defined by the procedure used to measure it, the definition is said to
be
A) Mechanistic
B) Lexicographic
C) procedural
D) operational
3) Of the following, the schedule that is most likely to produce a superstitious behaviour is
the
A) FD B
B) VD C
C) DRH D
D) VT
4) The time between conditioning trials is called the
A) inter-stimulus interval
B) inter-trial interval
C) contiguity gap
D) trace period
5) If, following conditioning, a CS is repeatedly presented without the US, the procedure is
called
A) higher-order conditioning
B) latent inhibition
C) extinction
D) preconditioning
6) A ________ stimulus is one that consists of two or more stimuli presented simultaneously.
A) conjugal
B) complex
C) concordant
D) compound
7) Your text defines behaviour as anything an organism does that can be
A) measured
B) tested
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C) inferred
D) accounted for
8) In _________ therapy, a stimulus that elicits an inappropriate response is paired with an
aversive stimulus such as shock or an emetic drug.
A) Counter
B) aversive
C) aversion
D) shock
9) In her work with porpoises, Karen Pryor gradually realized that what she had to do to get
novel behaviour from the animal was to
A) reinforce novel behaviour
B) punish repetitive behaviour
C) shape the novel behaviour she wanted
D) provide noncontingent reinforcement
10) Taking into account all the different results, the best position about absolute and
relational theories of learning stimulus control is
A) the absolute theory is more accurate for simultaneous discriminations, and the
relational theory for successive discriminations
B) the absolute theory is more accurate for successive discriminations, and the relational
theory for simultaneous discriminations
C) the absolute theory is more accurate in most cases
D) the relational theory is more accurate in most cases
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