Pedagogy Test 56

Total Questions: 35

1 - Sam's wife always wears the same black night gown whenever she is in the mode for outing Sam becomes around to go out as soon as he seas his wife in the night gown .For Sam the night gown is a (n):

A ) Unconditional stimulus

B ) Unconditional response

C ) Conditioner stimulus ✅

D ) Conditional response

2 - Watson and Rayner (1920) condition "little Albert" to fear white rats by beginning a hammer on a steel bar as he played with a white rat. later it was discovered that Albert feared not only white rates but white stuffed toys and Santa's beard as well . Albert's fear of these other objects can be attributed to:

A ) Acquisition

B ) Stimulus generalization ✅

C ) Stimulus discrimination

D ) An over active imagination

3 - The phenomena of higher order conditioning shows that:

A ) Only a genuine, natural UCS can be used to establish a CR

B ) Auditory stimuli are easier to condition than visual stimuli

C ) Visual stimuli are easier to condition than auditory stimuli

D ) An already established CS can be used in the place of a natural UCS ✅

4 - Which of the following statement is(are) true?

A ) Classical conditioning regulates reflexive, involuntary responsive exclusively

B ) Operant conditioning regulat voluntary response exclusively

C ) The distinction between the two types of conditioning is not absolute, with both types jointly and interactively governing some aspects of behaviour ✅

D ) A and b

5 - In a Skinner box the dependent variable is:

A ) The force with which the lever is pressed or the disk is pecked

B ) The schedule of reinforcement used

C ) The rate of responding ✅

D ) The speed of the cumulative recorder

6 - A primary reinforcer has reinforcing properties; A secondary rainforcer has _ reinforcing in properties:

A ) Biological; acquired ✅

B ) Conditioned ; unconditioned

C ) Potent ; weak

D ) Immediate ;delayed

7 - The steady, rapid responding of a person playing a slot machine is an example of the pattern of responding typically generated on a ____ schedule.

A ) Fixed -ratio

B ) Variable -ratio ✅

C ) Fixed -interval

D ) Variable -interval

8 - Positive reinforcement –--- the rate of responding negative reinforcement ----- the rate of responding:

A ) Increases ;decreases

B ) Decreases; increases

C ) Increases ;increases ✅

D ) Decreases decreases;

9 - According to the two -process theory a fear respons is required due to conditioning; it is maintained due to conditioning:

A ) Classical ;operant ✅

B ) Operant ;classical

C ) Classical ;classical

D ) Operant ;operant

10 - Breland and Breland described how animals innate responses can distort conditioning processes, a phenomenon they called:

A ) Avoidance learning

B ) Biopreconditioning

C ) Counter conditioning

D ) Instinctive drift ✅

11 - According to Rescorla, the strength of a conditioned response depends on:

A ) The number of trials in which the CS and UCS are paired

B ) The number of trials in which the CS is presented alone

C ) The percentage of trials in which the CS and UCS are paired ✅

D ) The percentage of trials in which the UCS is presented alone

12 - Skinner maintained that reinforcement determines the of a response ; Bandura maintains that reinforcement determines the of a response:

A ) Acquisition ;performance ✅

B ) Acquisition; acquisition

C ) Performance; performance

D ) Performance ; acquisition

13 - The link between physical punishment and subsequent aggressive behaviour is probably best explained by:

A ) Observational learning ✅

B ) Noncontingent reinforcement

C ) Resistance to extinction

D ) The matching law

14 - The second step in a self modification program is to:

A ) Specify the target behaviour

B ) Design your program

C ) Gather baseline data ✅

D ) Set up a behavioural Contact

15 - Getting information into memory is called ____ getting information out of memory is called:

A ) Storage; retrieval

B ) Encoding ;storage

C ) Encoding; retrieval ✅

D ) Storage ; encoding

16 - The word is big is flashed on a screen .A mental picture of the word big represents a code;the definition "large is size" represents a code; "sounds like pig" represents a code:

A ) Structural ,phonemic ,semantic

B ) Phonemic ,simantic, structural

C ) Structural, semantic, phonemic

D ) Phonemic,Structural, Semantic ✅

17 - According to Miller, the capacity of short-term memory is:

A ) About 50000 words

B ) Unlimited

C ) About 25 stimuli

D ) About 7 "chunks" of information ✅

18 - Which statement best represents current evidence on the durability of long -term storage?

A ) All forgetting involves breakdowns in retrieval

B ) LTM is like a barrel of marbles in which none of the marbles Ever leak out

C ) There is no convincing evidence that all one's memories are stored away permanently ✅

D ) All long term memories gradually decay at a constant rate

19 - An organised cluster of knowledge about a particular object or sequence of events is called as:

A ) Semantic network

B ) Conceptual hierarchy

C ) Schema ✅

D ) Retrieval cue

20 - The two year old child who refers to every four -legged animal as "doggie" is making which of the following errors?

A ) Under extension

B ) Over extension ✅

C ) Over regularization

D ) Under regularization

21 - Research suggests that Bilingualism has a negative effect on:

A ) Language development

B ) Cognitive development

C ) Metalinguistic awareness

D ) None of the above ✅

22 - Based on the work with kanzi, which statement best summarized the current status of the research on weather chimps can learn language?

A ) Chimps can acquire the use of symbols but cannot combine them into sentences or learn rules of language

B ) Chimps arr as well suited for learning and using language as humans

C ) Chimps are incapable even of learning the symbols of a language

D ) Chimps can learn some genuine language skills including the use of rules but the linguistics capacities of humans are far superior ✅

23 - Chomsky propose that children learn a language:

A ) Because they posses an innate language acquisition device ✅

B ) Through imitation, rainforcement and shaping

C ) As the quality of their thought improves with age

D ) Because they need to in order to get their increasingly complex needs met

24 - The linguistic relatively hypothesis is the nation that:

A ) One's language determines the nature of one's thought ✅

B ) One's thought determines are nature of one's language

C ) Language and thought are separate and independence processes

D ) Language and thought interact with each influencing the other

25 - Which of the following does not belong with the others?

A ) Aptitude tests

B ) Intelligence tests ✅

C ) Personality tests

D ) Achievement tests

26 - If a test has good test-retest reliability:

A ) There is a strong correlation between items on the test

B ) It accurately measures what it says it measures

C ) It can be used to predict future performance

D ) The test yields similar scores if taken at two different times ✅

27 - If you score at the 75th percentile on a standardized test this mean that:

A ) 75% of those who took the test scored better than you did

B ) 25% of those who took the test scored less than you did

C ) 75% of those who took the test scored the same less than you did ✅

D ) You answered 75% of the questions correctly

28 - Which of the following is a true statement regarding Francis Galton?

A ) He took the position that intelligence is largely determined by heredity ✅

B ) He advocated the development of special programs to tap the intellectual potential of the culturally disadvantages

C ) He developed Tests that identified those children who were unable to profit from a normal education

D ) He took the position that intelligence is more a matter of environment than heredity

29 - On most modern IQ tests ,a score of 150 would be:

A ) About normal

B ) About 15% higher than the average of one's age agemates

C ) An Indication of genius

D ) One standard deviation above the mean ✅

30 - IQ tests have provan to be good predictors of:

A ) Social intelligence

B ) Practical problem solving intelligence

C ) School performance ✅

D ) All of the above

31 - Mr. and Mrs. Proudparent are beaming because their son little Newton has been selected for a gifted children program at school. The think newton is a genius .what short of advice do they need to hear?

A ) Youngsters with 130 -140 IQ tend to be very maladjusted

B ) Most gifted children to not go on to make genius level, major contribution to society that earn them eminence ✅

C ) They should prepare to be famous based on their parentage of Newton

D ) They should we warned that gifted children often have deficits in fluid intelligence

32 - Which of the following is a true statement about mental retardation?

A ) Most retarded people are unable to live normal lives due to their mental deficiencies

B ) With special tutoring, a mentally retarded person can attain average intelligence

C ) The majority of mentally retarded people are mildly retarded ✅

D ) Diagnosis of mental retardation are based exclusively on IQ scores

33 - Most school consider children who ____ to be gifted.

A ) Have IQ scores about 115

B ) Score in the upper 2% -3% of the IQ distribution ✅

C ) Have parents in professional careers

D ) Demonstrate high levels of leadership and creativity

34 - In which of the following cases would you expect to find the greatest similarity in IQ?

A ) Between fraternal twins

B ) Between non twins sibling ✅

C ) Between identical twins

D ) Between parent and child

35 - Evidence indicating that upbringing affects one's mental ability is provided by which of the following findings?

A ) The identical twins are more similar in IQ than fraternal twins

B ) That there is more than a chance similarity between adopted children and their biological parents

C ) That siblings reared together are more similar in IQ than siblings reared apart ✅

D ) That identical twins reared apart are more similar in IQ than siblings reared together

Pedagogy Test 56

1 - Sam's wife always wears the same black night gown whenever she is in the mode for outing Sam becomes around to go out as soon as he seas his wife in the night gown .For Sam the night gown is a (n):

A ) Unconditional stimulus

B ) Unconditional response

C ) Conditioner stimulus ✅

D ) Conditional response

A ) Acquisition

B ) Stimulus generalization ✅

C ) Stimulus discrimination

D ) An over active imagination

3 - The phenomena of higher order conditioning shows that:

A ) Only a genuine, natural UCS can be used to establish a CR

B ) Auditory stimuli are easier to condition than visual stimuli

C ) Visual stimuli are easier to condition than auditory stimuli

D ) An already established CS can be used in the place of a natural UCS ✅

4 - Which of the following statement is(are) true?

A ) Classical conditioning regulates reflexive, involuntary responsive exclusively

B ) Operant conditioning regulat voluntary response exclusively

C ) The distinction between the two types of conditioning is not absolute, with both types jointly and interactively governing some aspects of behaviour ✅

D ) A and b

5 - In a Skinner box the dependent variable is:

A ) The force with which the lever is pressed or the disk is pecked

B ) The schedule of reinforcement used

C ) The rate of responding ✅

D ) The speed of the cumulative recorder

6 - A primary reinforcer has ____ reinforcing properties; A secondary rainforcer has _____ reinforcing in properties:

A ) Biological; acquired ✅

B ) Conditioned ; unconditioned

C ) Potent ; weak

D ) Immediate ;delayed

7 - The steady, rapid responding of a person playing a slot machine is an example of the pattern of responding typically generated on a ____ schedule.

A ) Fixed -ratio

B ) Variable -ratio ✅

C ) Fixed -interval

D ) Variable -interval

8 - Positive reinforcement –--- the rate of responding negative reinforcement ----- the rate of responding:

A ) Increases ;decreases

B ) Decreases; increases

C ) Increases ;increases ✅

D ) Decreases decreases;

9 - According to the two -process theory a fear respons is required due to ____ conditioning; it is maintained due to ____ conditioning:

A ) Classical ;operant ✅

B ) Operant ;classical

C ) Classical ;classical

D ) Operant ;operant

10 - Breland and Breland described how animals innate responses can distort conditioning processes, a phenomenon they called:

A ) Avoidance learning

B ) Biopreconditioning

C ) Counter conditioning

D ) Instinctive drift ✅

11 - According to Rescorla, the strength of a conditioned response depends on:

A ) The number of trials in which the CS and UCS are paired

B ) The number of trials in which the CS is presented alone

C ) The percentage of trials in which the CS and UCS are paired ✅

D ) The percentage of trials in which the UCS is presented alone

12 - Skinner maintained that reinforcement determines the ____ of a response ; Bandura maintains that reinforcement determines the ____ of a response:

A ) Acquisition ;performance ✅

B ) Acquisition; acquisition

C ) Performance; performance

D ) Performance ; acquisition

13 - The link between physical punishment and subsequent aggressive behaviour is probably best explained by:

A ) Observational learning ✅

B ) Noncontingent reinforcement

C ) Resistance to extinction

D ) The matching law

14 - The second step in a self modification program is to:

A ) Specify the target behaviour

B ) Design your program

C ) Gather baseline data ✅

D ) Set up a behavioural Contact

15 - Getting information into memory is called ____ getting information out of memory is called:

A ) Storage; retrieval

B ) Encoding ;storage

C ) Encoding; retrieval ✅

D ) Storage ; encoding

16 - The word is big is flashed on a screen .A mental picture of the word big represents a____ code;the definition "large is size" represents a ____ code; "sounds like pig" represents a ____ code:

A ) Structural ,phonemic ,semantic

B ) Phonemic ,simantic, structural

C ) Structural, semantic, phonemic

D ) Phonemic,Structural, Semantic ✅

6 - A primary reinforcer has reinforcing properties; A secondary rainforcer has _ reinforcing in properties:

9 - According to the two -process theory a fear respons is required due to conditioning; it is maintained due to conditioning:

12 - Skinner maintained that reinforcement determines the of a response ; Bandura maintains that reinforcement determines the of a response:

16 - The word is big is flashed on a screen .A mental picture of the word big represents a code;the definition "large is size" represents a code; "sounds like pig" represents a code: