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📊 Basic Psychological Process
Q. _____________ is the tendency of an animal to revert to its instinctive behaviors that can interfere with the performance of an operantly conditioned response.
  • (A) aversion
  • (B) instinctive drift
  • (C) latent learning
  • (D) law of effect
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) instinctive drift
📊 Basic Psychological Process
Q. __________________ is an American psychologist who experimentally demonstrated the involvement of cognitive processes in classical conditioning.
  • (A) robert .a. rescorla b.
  • (B) f.skinner c. edward .
  • (C) tolman
  • (D) albert bandura
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) robert .a. rescorla b.
📊 Basic Psychological Process
Q. ___________________ is an American psychologist who experimentally investigated observational learning, emphasizing the role of cognitive factors.
  • (A) ivan pavlov b.
  • (B) f.skinner c. edward .
  • (C) tolman
  • (D) albert bandura
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) albert bandura
📊 Basic Psychological Process
Q. Learning that is not reflected in actual performance is called _______________ learning.
  • (A) cognitive
  • (B) observational
  • (C) latent
  • (D) operant
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) latent
📊 Basic Psychological Process
Q. ________________ is the basic learning process that involves changing the probability of a response being repeated by manipulating the consequences of that response.
  • (A) classical conditioning
  • (B) defense mechanism
  • (C) operant conditioning
  • (D) punishment
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) operant conditioning
📊 Basic Psychological Process
Q. ___________________ refers to gradual weakening and disappearance of conditioned behavior when it is no longer followed by a reinforcer.
  • (A) extinction
  • (B) negative reinforcement
  • (C) partial reinforcement
  • (D) punishment
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) extinction
📊 Basic Psychological Process
Q. 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.
  • (A) positive
  • (B) negative
  • (C) primary
  • (D) secondary
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) primary
📊 Basic Psychological Process
Q. _________________ is Skinner’s term for an actively emitted behavior that operates on the environment to produce consequences.
  • (A) classical
  • (B) reinforce
  • (C) operant
  • (D) punishment
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) operant
📊 Basic Psychological Process
Q. _________________ is the operant conditioning procedure of selectively reinforcing successively closer approximations of a goal behavior until the goal behavior is displayed.
  • (A) modeling
  • (B) shaping
  • (C) sublimation
  • (D) reinforcing
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) shaping
📊 Basic Psychological Process
Q. ____________________ is the application of learning principles to help people develop more effective or adaptive behaviors.
  • (A) defense mechanism
  • (B) behavior modification
  • (C) positive reinforcement
  • (D) adaptation
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) behavior modification

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