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Psyc 387 – Learning Questions With Correct Answers

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Psyc 387 – Learning Questions With
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Correct Answers
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Aversion Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔A form of counter
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conditioning where a CS is paired with an aversive US
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Backward Training - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔A chaining
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procedure where training begins with the last link in the chain
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and adds preceding links in reverse order
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The brown-headed cowbird deposits its eggs in the nests of
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other birds. This is most likely a - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔fixed action pattern
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Natural selection is often - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔behind the
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times
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Balster and colleagues suggest that inhumane treatment of
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research animals is - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔bad science
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Any variable an experimenter manipulates is a/an ________
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variable. - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔independent
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,In her study of baboons, Shirley Strum found that the most
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successful males were - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔less
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aggressive than other males.
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Natural selection is illustrated by changes in the colouration of
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the Peppered Moth resulting from - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔industrial pollution
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The kind of study that is most likely to involve a large number of
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subjects is one with a/an - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔between-
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In group-design experiments, researchers often use _________ to
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reduce differences among participants. - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔matched sampling
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In a cumulative record, learning is indicated by change in
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response - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔rate
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A teacher who looks for an increase in the number of correct
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performances per minute is using _______ as a measure of
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learning. - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔fluency
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,E. O. Wilson suggests that there are two FAPs in humans: the
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incest taboo and - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔biophilia
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Tropical army ants appear to be marching together toward an
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objective, but they are actually following - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔a chemical trail
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Darwin founded his theory of evolution on the work of Gregor
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Mendel. - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔False
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In the fox-breeding experiment, researchers selectively mated
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foxes that displayed ________ behavior - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔dog-like
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Probably the reason the world seems relatively stable is that we
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don't live long enough to see many drastic changes - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔True
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Darwin believed that there were no human instincts - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔False
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Speed and rate are different terms for the same measure of
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learning - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔False
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, It is sometimes difficult to say whether an event represents
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behavior or physiology - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔True
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All reflexes contribute to survival - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔False
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refers to the time that passes before a response occurs. -
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CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔latency
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Repeated exposure to a stimulus that evokes a reflex response
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results in - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔habituation
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One thing researchers can control better with animal subjects
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than with human subjects is - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔genetic
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history
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is a biological mechanism for adapting to change - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔Learning
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Learning is a ______ in _________ due to ______ - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔change, behavior, experience
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