This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Teaching > Behaviorism – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Behaviorism Quiz 5 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A little girl gets to eat dessert because she finished all the food on her plate. This is an example of: A) Positive punishment. B) Positive Reinforcement. C) Negative Reinforcement. D) Negative punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive Reinforcement. 2. The parents of a teen girl that never heps around the house, come home to find that the gir has finished all her chores.How could the parents use positivereinforcement to increase the chances of her continuing the behavior? A) Give her an allowance. B) Take away her phone. C) Remove her responsibility for the chores. D) Add more chores. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Give her an allowance. 3. Explanations of learning that focus on external events as the cause of changes in behavior, either positive or negative are known as A) Behavioral learning theories. B) Explanation learning theory. C) Theory of cognitive dissonance. D) Big bang theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behavioral learning theories. 4. A teacher wants his students to be more prepared for class.When all of them come prepared, to increase the possibilities of them repeating this behavior, he deletes the homework assignment for that day.This is example of: A) Positive reinforcement. B) Positive punishment. C) Negative reinforcement. D) Negative punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negative reinforcement. 5. Watson's work has been involved with which of the following divisions of psychology? A) Animal psychology. B) Industrial/organizational psychology. C) Behaviorism. D) Developmental psychology. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 6. Who was the founder of the radical behaviorism? A) Breuer. B) Skinner. C) Vigotsky. D) Watson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skinner. 7. The conditioned stimulus (CS): A) Is the response to the US. B) Is originally the neutral stimulus that gains the power to cause the CR. C) Triggers an unconditioned response reflexively or automatically when the CR happens. D) Is what triggers the US to occur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is originally the neutral stimulus that gains the power to cause the CR. 8. According to Bronfenbrenner, every person develops within a? A) Macro-system. B) Gaming System. C) Exo-system. D) Micro-system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Micro-system. 9. What is the main principle, that Behaviorism is based on? A) The learner is viewed as an information processor. B) Stimulus-response. C) Learning is an active, constructive process. D) Social influence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stimulus-response. 10. Watson's position on the use of the term consciousness was to ..... A) Infer the elements of consciousness from overt behaviors. B) Examine its relevance to overt behaviors. C) Infer the elements of consciousness from observable physiological substrates. D) Eliminate it entirely from psychological research because it is not an objective method. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eliminate it entirely from psychological research because it is not an objective method. 11. Mark gets anxious when he hears the garage door open after so many times of getting in trouble when his parents get home. What is the neutral stimulus? A) The garage door. B) Anxiety from getting in trouble. C) Getting in trouble. D) Anxiety from hearing the garage door. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The garage door. 12. Anything that seeks to continue a desired behavior by the removal, escape from, or avoidance of undesired stimulus is called ..... A) Punishment. B) Partial Reinforcement. C) Positive Reinforcement. D) Negative Reinforcement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative Reinforcement. 13. Choose the theorist who dealt with the Classical conditioning A) P.I. Pavlov. B) E.L. Thornidike. C) J.B. Watson. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 14. Watson's contribution to the method of objective testing was ..... A) To argue that the subjects' responses were under the stimulus control of the test items. B) To create a series of tests which are still used today. C) To create a measure of reliability. D) To advocate for its widespread use. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To argue that the subjects' responses were under the stimulus control of the test items. 15. The gradual loss of an association over time. A) Extinction. B) Primary reinforcement. C) Fixed ratio schedule. D) Response. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extinction. 16. What does the behaviorism reject? A) The reason. B) People who have a critical thinking. C) Instrospection.it is never possible to objectively observe people's thoughts, motives and meanings. D) The rats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Instrospection.it is never possible to objectively observe people's thoughts, motives and meanings. 17. A worker is rewarded for the first response after a specified period of time. What reinforcement schedule is this? A) Fixed Interval Schedule. B) Variable Interval Schedule. C) Fixed Ratio Schedule. D) Variable Ratio Schedule. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fixed Interval Schedule. 18. What modality? lecture A) Constructivism. B) Cognitivism. C) Behaviorism. D) Connectivism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Behaviorism. 19. The behaviourism has been divided into these categories: A) Methodological and radical behaviorism. B) Conductas. C) Radical behaviorism. D) Neobehaviorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Methodological and radical behaviorism. 20. The most significant public impact of Watson's varied undertakings was to ..... A) Introduce pop psychology as a new field. B) Prepare the way for Skinner. C) Transform childrearing practices. D) Eliminate all remains of functionalism from the science of psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transform childrearing practices. 21. Watson's primary contribution to psychology was ..... A) The rejection of consciousness. B) His advocacy of a science of behavior that was objective in methods and language. C) His rejection of the instinct theory. D) Openness to different viewpoints. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His advocacy of a science of behavior that was objective in methods and language. 22. The sudden reappearance of a response after a period of extinction is known as: A) Stimulus discrimination. B) Reappearance. C) Stimulus generalization. D) Spontaneous recovery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spontaneous recovery. 23. Was Behaviorist work applied to animals (e.g. Pavlov's dogs)? A) No, as animals have nothing to do with human behaviors. B) Yes, it was applied but did not have a relation with the human behaviors. C) Lots of Behaviorist work was done with animals and generalized to humans. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lots of Behaviorist work was done with animals and generalized to humans. 24. One criticism of Watson was that his strict objectivity ..... A) Needed to be discarded. B) Was good for the discipline. C) Was hard to achieve. D) Was second to the introspection method. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was hard to achieve. 25. In Watson's experiment, which of the following was a Conditioned Stimulus (CS)? A) Loud. B) White rat. C) Cry. D) Frightened. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) White rat. 26. (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2) A) Behaviorism. B) Connectivism. C) Constructivism. D) Cognitivism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behaviorism. 27. He conducted was called the puzzle box experiment, which is similar to theclassic "rat in the maze" experiment. A) Benjamin Bloom. B) Edward Thorndike. C) Ivan Pavlov. D) B. F. Skinner. E) John B. Watson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Edward Thorndike. 28. What modality? Creates knowledge collaboratively A) Connectivism. B) Cognitivism. C) Constructivism. D) Behaviorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connectivism. 29. Which theorist became famous for his behaviorism experiment on dogs? A) B.F. Skinner. B) Albert Bandura. C) Ivan Pavlov. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ivan Pavlov. 30. A response spread from one specific stimulus to other stimuli that resemble the original A) Extinction. B) Punishment. C) Stimulus generalization. D) Reinforcement. 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