Test Bank to accompany The World
of Psychology, Eighth Canadian
Edition
Chapter 5 - Learning
1) Experience causes learning if it results in
a. a cognitive understanding of what has changed.
b. internal changes in the organism which may or may not be detectable.
c. a relatively permanent change in behaviour, capability, or attitude.
d. maturation of the targeted area.
Answer: c
Correct: Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that results
from experience, but is not as a result of illness, injury, or maturation.
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
Topic: Conceptual
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
2) The term learning applies to behaviour changes
a. that are relatively permanent.
b. that result from maturation.
c. stemming from fatigue, drugs, or illness.
d. that are temporary.
Answer: a
Correct: Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that results
from experience, but is not as a result of illness, injury, or maturation.
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
,Topic: Conceptual
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
3) Which behavioural changes are considered to be learned?
a. Those occurring as a result of maturation
b. Those occurring as a result of illness
c. Those occurring as a result of experience
d. Those occurring as a result of fatigue
Answer: c
Correct: Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that results
from experience, but is not as a result of illness, injury, or maturation.
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
Topic: Conceptual
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
4) An important aspect of the definition of learning is that the learned behaviour
a. is a result of experience.
b. is present in all adult members of the species.
c. must be adaptive for the organism.
d. must be observable.
Answer: a
Correct: Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that results
from experience, but is not as a result of illness, injury, or maturation.
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
Topic: Conceptual
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
5) Birds’ migration and salmon’s spawning are not considered learned behaviours,
because they
a. are not relatively permanent.
,b. do not result from experience.
c. have not been reinforced.
d. are not always overt.
Answer: b
Correct: Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that results
from experience, but is not as a result of illness, injury, or maturation.
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
Topic: Applied
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
6) Which of the following would be an example of learning, according to the definition in
the text?
a. Now that he is six feet and three inches tall, Michael can dunk a basketball.
b. Andy rides his bicycle without training wheels for the first time.
c. The newborn calf stands up and begins to walk.
d. A spider spins its first web.
Answer: b
Correct: Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that results
from experience. Andy has had to learn to ride his bike through experience, an important
element in the definition of learning.
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
Topic: Applied
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
7) Classical conditioning was first researched by
a. B.F. Skinner.
b. Albert Bandura.
c. Ivan Pavlov.
d. John B. Watson.
, Answer: c
Correct: The creator of classical conditioning theory was Ivan Pavlov.
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
Topic: Factual
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
8) The discovery of classical conditioning has been attributed to
a. Sigmund Freud.
b. J.B. Watson.
c. Ivan Pavlov.
d. B.F. Skinner.
Answer: c
Correct: The creator of classical conditioning theory was Ivan Pavlov.
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
Topic: Factual
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
9) In his investigation of classical conditioning, Ivan Pavlov found that dogs
a. refused to eat food that they had seen make other dogs sick.
b. who had been conditioned could no longer digest food normally.
c. would not eat food within reach until given the appropriate signal.
d. began to salivate at the sight or sound of laboratory assistants bringing food, as well as
from the taste of the food.
Answer: d
Correct: Pavlov’s pivotal discovery was that the dogs began to salivate even before the
food was placed in front of them. This discovery caused the ensuing chain of events that
ultimately led to the establishment of his theory.
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
of Psychology, Eighth Canadian
Edition
Chapter 5 - Learning
1) Experience causes learning if it results in
a. a cognitive understanding of what has changed.
b. internal changes in the organism which may or may not be detectable.
c. a relatively permanent change in behaviour, capability, or attitude.
d. maturation of the targeted area.
Answer: c
Correct: Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that results
from experience, but is not as a result of illness, injury, or maturation.
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
Topic: Conceptual
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
2) The term learning applies to behaviour changes
a. that are relatively permanent.
b. that result from maturation.
c. stemming from fatigue, drugs, or illness.
d. that are temporary.
Answer: a
Correct: Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that results
from experience, but is not as a result of illness, injury, or maturation.
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
,Topic: Conceptual
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
3) Which behavioural changes are considered to be learned?
a. Those occurring as a result of maturation
b. Those occurring as a result of illness
c. Those occurring as a result of experience
d. Those occurring as a result of fatigue
Answer: c
Correct: Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that results
from experience, but is not as a result of illness, injury, or maturation.
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
Topic: Conceptual
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
4) An important aspect of the definition of learning is that the learned behaviour
a. is a result of experience.
b. is present in all adult members of the species.
c. must be adaptive for the organism.
d. must be observable.
Answer: a
Correct: Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that results
from experience, but is not as a result of illness, injury, or maturation.
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
Topic: Conceptual
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
5) Birds’ migration and salmon’s spawning are not considered learned behaviours,
because they
a. are not relatively permanent.
,b. do not result from experience.
c. have not been reinforced.
d. are not always overt.
Answer: b
Correct: Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that results
from experience, but is not as a result of illness, injury, or maturation.
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
Topic: Applied
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
6) Which of the following would be an example of learning, according to the definition in
the text?
a. Now that he is six feet and three inches tall, Michael can dunk a basketball.
b. Andy rides his bicycle without training wheels for the first time.
c. The newborn calf stands up and begins to walk.
d. A spider spins its first web.
Answer: b
Correct: Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that results
from experience. Andy has had to learn to ride his bike through experience, an important
element in the definition of learning.
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
Topic: Applied
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
7) Classical conditioning was first researched by
a. B.F. Skinner.
b. Albert Bandura.
c. Ivan Pavlov.
d. John B. Watson.
, Answer: c
Correct: The creator of classical conditioning theory was Ivan Pavlov.
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
Topic: Factual
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
8) The discovery of classical conditioning has been attributed to
a. Sigmund Freud.
b. J.B. Watson.
c. Ivan Pavlov.
d. B.F. Skinner.
Answer: c
Correct: The creator of classical conditioning theory was Ivan Pavlov.
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
Topic: Factual
Objective: 5.1 Define learning and classical conditioning.
9) In his investigation of classical conditioning, Ivan Pavlov found that dogs
a. refused to eat food that they had seen make other dogs sick.
b. who had been conditioned could no longer digest food normally.
c. would not eat food within reach until given the appropriate signal.
d. began to salivate at the sight or sound of laboratory assistants bringing food, as well as
from the taste of the food.
Answer: d
Correct: Pavlov’s pivotal discovery was that the dogs began to salivate even before the
food was placed in front of them. This discovery caused the ensuing chain of events that
ultimately led to the establishment of his theory.
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 126
