PSYC 387 Learning: Quizzes UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
VERT stands for virtual reality exposure therapy
Your test describes four basic sources of evidence: anecdotal
anecdotal, case study, descriptive study, and
experimental study. The least reliable of these is
The quotation "Change is the only constant" is Lucretius
attributed to
Work on selective breeding in ______ over a period of 40 foxes
years has shown that behavioural characteristics can
have selectively bred so that the descendants behave
more like a different species than like their own
ancestors.
Ants on a straight surface such as a road will march around and around
a reflex can defined as a relationship between an event and a simple response
The cowbird deposits its eggs in the nests of other model action pattern (reflex)
birds. This is most likely a ___ _.
The list of alleged human instincts ______. has gotten shorter over the years
Lee Cronk wrote an article on how evolved behavior "Old Dogs, Old Tricks"
can prove nonadaptive when the environment changes.
The article was called ____ _.
Most mutations are not helpful to survival
The test states that mechanism exists that can allow learning
organisms to change within the lifetime of the
individual. This mechanism is called
Which of the following would qualify as learning? d
a. being calmed with a tranquilizer
b. calm behaviour after brain surgery
c. changes due to aging
d. none of the above
What does this figure below most likely illustrate? habituation
, Zing Yang found that 86% of kittens that saw their 45%
mother kill rats later killed rats themselves. He found
that ___ of kittens that never saw their mother kill rats
later killed rats themselves.
Hart and Risley did a longitudinal study of the influence children whose parents talked to them a lot later scored higher on IQ tests
of the home verbal environment on children from
different socioeconomic backgrounds. They found that
_______.
Harry teaches an advanced painting class. His goal is to topography
teach students to paint more creatively. Harry will
probably measure learning as a change in response
_________.
Which of the following tools can be used to test d.
hypotheses?
a. descriptive studies
b. anecdotal evidence
c. case studies
d. none of the above
The figure shows the results of an experiment between-subject design
comparing the effects of two teaching methods. Phyllis
was taught by methods A; Gertrude was taught by
method B. This study is an example of:
Any variable that is allowed to vary freely is a(n) __________ dependent
variable.
experiments done in natural setting are called field experiments
Learning always involves the acquisition of new F
behaviours T/F?
B.F Skinner was the first person to record data F
cumulatively T/F?
Research results with humans usually parallel those with T
animals T/F?
The chief limitation of natural selection as a means of slow
adapting to change is that it is
Learning is a change in behaviour due to experience
A stimulus is an environmental event that is capable of behavior
affecting
A change in the form that behaviour takes is called a topography
change in
and CORRECT Answers
VERT stands for virtual reality exposure therapy
Your test describes four basic sources of evidence: anecdotal
anecdotal, case study, descriptive study, and
experimental study. The least reliable of these is
The quotation "Change is the only constant" is Lucretius
attributed to
Work on selective breeding in ______ over a period of 40 foxes
years has shown that behavioural characteristics can
have selectively bred so that the descendants behave
more like a different species than like their own
ancestors.
Ants on a straight surface such as a road will march around and around
a reflex can defined as a relationship between an event and a simple response
The cowbird deposits its eggs in the nests of other model action pattern (reflex)
birds. This is most likely a ___ _.
The list of alleged human instincts ______. has gotten shorter over the years
Lee Cronk wrote an article on how evolved behavior "Old Dogs, Old Tricks"
can prove nonadaptive when the environment changes.
The article was called ____ _.
Most mutations are not helpful to survival
The test states that mechanism exists that can allow learning
organisms to change within the lifetime of the
individual. This mechanism is called
Which of the following would qualify as learning? d
a. being calmed with a tranquilizer
b. calm behaviour after brain surgery
c. changes due to aging
d. none of the above
What does this figure below most likely illustrate? habituation
, Zing Yang found that 86% of kittens that saw their 45%
mother kill rats later killed rats themselves. He found
that ___ of kittens that never saw their mother kill rats
later killed rats themselves.
Hart and Risley did a longitudinal study of the influence children whose parents talked to them a lot later scored higher on IQ tests
of the home verbal environment on children from
different socioeconomic backgrounds. They found that
_______.
Harry teaches an advanced painting class. His goal is to topography
teach students to paint more creatively. Harry will
probably measure learning as a change in response
_________.
Which of the following tools can be used to test d.
hypotheses?
a. descriptive studies
b. anecdotal evidence
c. case studies
d. none of the above
The figure shows the results of an experiment between-subject design
comparing the effects of two teaching methods. Phyllis
was taught by methods A; Gertrude was taught by
method B. This study is an example of:
Any variable that is allowed to vary freely is a(n) __________ dependent
variable.
experiments done in natural setting are called field experiments
Learning always involves the acquisition of new F
behaviours T/F?
B.F Skinner was the first person to record data F
cumulatively T/F?
Research results with humans usually parallel those with T
animals T/F?
The chief limitation of natural selection as a means of slow
adapting to change is that it is
Learning is a change in behaviour due to experience
A stimulus is an environmental event that is capable of behavior
affecting
A change in the form that behaviour takes is called a topography
change in
