A hungry worker is given lunch when he completes a task. Lunch is an example of which of the following?
a. punishment
b. secondary reinforcer
c. law of effect
d. primary reinforcer
Ques. 2A worker is given a paycheck when he completes a task. A paycheck is an example of which of the following?
a. punishment
b. secondary reinforcer
c. law of effect
d. primary reinforcer
Ques. 3A teacher blows a whistle until the students form a straight line. The whistling stops as soon as the line is formed. This is an example of which of the following?
a. punishment
b. negative reinforcement
c. positive reinforcement
d. operant reinforcement
Ques. 4Cameron just completed a test where he was asked to complete analogies (apple: eat :: juice: _____) and series completion (2, 4, 8,16, _____). Which of Thurstone's primary mental abilities did this demonstrate?
a. memory
b. inductive reasoning
c. number
d. perceptual speed
Ques. 5Who was the founding father of behaviorism?
a. Burrhus F. Skinner
b. John Watson
c. Edward Lee Thorndike
d. Sigmund Freud
Ques. 6Heritability studies result in heritability coefficients of approximately 0.6. to 0.8. What do these numbers indicate?
a. Genetic influences determine intelligence.
b. Environmental influences determine intelligence.
c. There is not enough data to determine if either genetics or environmental influences determine intelligence.
d. Genetic influences affect individual differences in intelligence, but these influences are not the only
determining factor.
Ques. 7Classical conditioning has been used to curtail coyote attacks on sheep. Fresh mutton is tainted with a poison that causes dizziness and nausea. After a while, just the smell of sheep sends the coyotes running away. In this example, what is the UR?
a. poison
b. mutton
c. dizziness and nausea
d. smell of sheep
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