All Free Psychology MCQs with Answers
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- A. Freud
- B. Skinner
- C. Watson
- D. Pavlov
Explanation: John B. Watson used this statement to express the behaviourist view that environmental conditioning can shape a child’s behaviour.
Correct answer: Watson2522. Learning is based on:
- A. Knowledge
- B. Comprehension
- C. Understanding
- D. Practice
Explanation: Learning requires experience or practice that produces a relatively lasting change in behaviour or knowledge.
Correct answer: Practice- A. Principles of learning apply equally to different species
- B. Learning can be studied objectively by focusing on stimuli and responses
- C. Organisms are born as "blank states" shaped and influenced by the environment
- D. Internal cognitive processes are largely included in scientific study
Explanation: Behaviorism focuses on observable stimuli, responses, and environmental learning, while treating private mental processes as outside or…
Correct answer: Internal cognitive processes are largely included in scientific study- A. heuristics
- B. algorithms
- C. reinforcement
- D. universal grammar
Explanation: Skinner explained language learning through operant conditioning, especially reinforcement of sounds and verbal responses.
Correct answer: reinforcement- A. Cognitive, perceptual and deficits
- B. Cognitive, perceptual and motivational deficits
- C. Emotional, attitude and motivational deficits
- D. Cognitive, motivational and emotional deficits
Explanation: Learned helplessness commonly produces cognitive, motivational, and emotional deficits after a person experiences events as…
Correct answer: Cognitive, motivational and emotional deficits- A. trial and error
- B. a fixation
- C. artificial intelligence
- D. insight
Explanation: Köhler interpreted Sultan’s sudden solution as insight, meaning the chimpanzee mentally reorganised the problem and understood how the…
Correct answer: insight- A. generalize to the UR
- B. precede the US
- C. be identical to the US
- D. be followed by the UR
Explanation: In classical conditioning, the CS must reliably come before the US so that it can predict the US and acquire the ability to elicit the CR.
Correct answer: precede the US- A. leads to an increase of the UR
- B. leads to decrease of the UR
- C. depends on the size of the UR
- D. does not evoke the UR
Explanation: Before conditioning, a neutral stimulus does not produce the relevant response, so it does not evoke the unconditioned response in this…
Correct answer: does not evoke the UR2529. The extent to which people believe that they can bring about an outcome is referred to as________.
- A. Extraversion
- B. Neuroticism
- C. Self-efficacy
- D. Self-regulation
Explanation: Self-efficacy is the belief that one can successfully perform actions and produce a desired outcome.
Correct answer: Self-efficacy- A. classical conditioning
- B. operant conditioning
- C. observational learning
- D. insight learning
Explanation: Skinner explained learning mainly through operant conditioning, in which consequences such as reinforcement and punishment alter the…
Correct answer: operant conditioning- A. learned helplessness
- B. an internal locus of control
- C. an inferiority complex
- D. the self-reference phenomenon
Explanation: Learned helplessness develops when repeated exposure to uncontrollable aversive events teaches a person that efforts will not change the…
Correct answer: learned helplessness- A. belongingness and love needs
- B. aesthetic needs
- C. the need for self-actualization
- D. esteem needs
Explanation: Wanting a partner and children reflects the need for close relationships, affection, and group membership, which Maslow calls…
Correct answer: belongingness and love needs- A. curvilinear relationship
- B. effect of extraneous variables
- C. natural experiment
- D. placebo effect
Explanation: The improvement followed an inert substance presented as an effective diet pill, so the expectation of benefit produced the reported…
Correct answer: placebo effect- A. Pavlov
- B. Freud
- C. Maslow
- D. Skinner
Explanation: B. F. Skinner studied operant conditioning, in which behavior is strengthened or weakened by its consequences.
Correct answer: Skinner- A. occur after the response
- B. occur before the response
- C. occur simultaneously with the response
- D. are unrelated to the response except during extinction
Explanation: In Thorndike’s law of effect, the consequences that follow a response determine whether that response becomes more or less likely in the…
Correct answer: occur after the response- A. conditioned response
- B. unconditioned stimulus
- C. conditioned stimulus
- D. unconditioned response
Explanation: Before conditioning, the bell is neutral, but after being paired with food it becomes a conditioned stimulus that elicits salivation.
Correct answer: conditioned stimulus- A. conditioned response
- B. unconditioned stimulus
- C. conditioned stimulus
- D. unconditioned response
Explanation: Food naturally produces salivation without prior learning, so it is the unconditioned stimulus.
Correct answer: unconditioned stimulus- A. neutral stimulus
- B. unconditioned stimulus
- C. conditioned stimulus
- D. unconditioned response
Explanation: Before conditioning, the bell does not naturally produce salivation, so it is a neutral stimulus.
Correct answer: neutral stimulus- A. Conditioned response
- B. Unconditioned stimulus
- C. Conditioned stimulus
- D. unconditioned response
Explanation: Salivation that occurs naturally when food is presented is an unconditioned response because it does not require learning.
Correct answer: unconditioned response- A. food
- B. bell
- C. salivation to the food
- D. salivation to the bell
Explanation: The bell became a conditioned stimulus after repeated pairing with food.
Correct answer: bell