Basic Psychological Process MCQs
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Q 1. _____________ is the tendency of an animal to revert to its instinctive behaviors that can interfere with the performance of an operantly conditioned response.
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Q 2. __________________ is an American psychologist who experimentally demonstrated the involvement of cognitive processes in classical conditioning.
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Q 3. ___________________ is an American psychologist who experimentally investigated observational learning, emphasizing the role of cognitive factors.
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Q 4. Learning that is not reflected in actual performance is called _______________ learning.
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Q 5. ________________ is the basic learning process that involves changing the probability of a response being repeated by manipulating the consequences of that response.
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Q 6. ___________________ refers to gradual weakening and disappearance of conditioned behavior when it is no longer followed by a reinforcer.
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Q 7. A ________________ reinforcer is a stimulus or event that is naturally or inherently reinforcing for a given species, such as food, water, or other biological necessities.
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Q 8. _________________ is Skinner’s term for an actively emitted behavior that operates on the environment to produce consequences.
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Q 9. _________________ is the operant conditioning procedure of selectively reinforcing successively closer approximations of a goal behavior until the goal behavior is displayed.
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