All Free Psychology MCQs with Answers

• A. Conditions
• B. Time
• C. Experiences
• D. All of these

Explanation: Tendencies and interests can change with surrounding conditions, the passage of time, and new experiences.

• A. He will do it repeatedly
• B. He will make it a part of his behavior
• C. He will opt it from other options
• D. All of the above

Explanation: A pleasurable activity is likely to be repeated, incorporated into the child’s behaviour, and selected over less rewarding alternatives.

• A. He is ready to learn
• B. He has the desire to learn
• C. He makes efforts to learn consciously
• D. All of the above

Explanation: Effective learning requires readiness, a desire or motive to learn, and conscious effort directed toward the task.

• A. Which factors influence the learning process
• B. How the field of educational psychology can be widen
• C. How individual differences can be reduced
• D. All of the above

Explanation: A central question in the study of learning is which internal and environmental factors influence how learning occurs.

• A. inner states
• B. Observable behavior
• C. Individual differences
• D. Measurement of personality

Explanation: Behaviorists define learning in terms of observable changes in behaviour because private mental states cannot be directly observed.

• A. Temporary
• B. Permanent
• C. Physical
• D. psycho-dynamic

Explanation: Learning is conventionally defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour or knowledge resulting from experience or practice.

• A. negative transfer
• B. extinction
• C. discrimination
• D. successive approximation

Explanation: Discrimination occurs when a learned response is made to one stimulus but not to similar stimuli.

• A. immediate, consistent and intense
• B. delayed, consistent, and mild
• C. immediate, consistent, and mild
• D. delayed, inconsistent, and intense

Explanation: Punishment suppresses behavior most effectively when it follows the behavior immediately, occurs consistently, and is sufficiently intense…

• A. an increase in stimulus generalization
• B. the strength of the UR to increase
• C. an increase in response generalization
• D. extinction to occur

Explanation: When a conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the expected reinforcement, the conditioned response gradually weakens, which…

• A. Give rise to many habits
• B. Give rise to many emotional states
• C. Gibes rise to many economic abilities
• D. Give rise to many permanent behavioural changes

Explanation: Learning is generally defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior or behavioral potential resulting from experience.

• A. Pavlov
• B. Skinner
• C. Thorndike
• D. Watson

Explanation: Edward Thorndike proposed connectionism, the view that learning forms connections between situations and responses.

• A. To know the problem
• B. To comprehend and sole the problems
• C. To comprehend the problem by experience
• D. To remove the problem

Explanation: Learning improves a person’s ability to understand situations and solve problems by building knowledge and useful response patterns…

• A. Two stimuli being paired that produce a conditioned response over time
• B. An organism interacting with its environment, becoming changed by experience, and thereby modifying subsequent behaviours
• C. An organism interacting with its environment through autoshaping and conditioning
• D. An organism responding to its environment based on reinforcement or punishment for behaviours
• E. The effect of parents, teachers and peers

Explanation: Learning is a relatively lasting change produced through interaction with the environment and experience, which alters later behaviour.

• A. A snail experiences a brief jolt of the surface on which it is crawling and reacts by reacting into its shell. Subsequent jolts however, are found to be less effective in inducing withdrawal, until the reaction finally disappears
• B. The first conspicuous moving object seen by a newly hatched chick is a laboratory attendant. As a consequence, the chick develops an attachment to that person, approaching and following him or her, and tending to avoid other things
• C. A rat is given access to a distinctively flavoured foodstuff that has been lanced with a small amount of prison, enough to induce nausea but not enough to kill. On recovering from its illness however, the rat will still go back to the flavour
• D. A hungry pigeon is given a small amount of food each time it happens to make a turn in a particular direction. After experiencing a few rewards, the bird develops an increasing tendency to circle on the spot in the 'correct' direction

Explanation: Habituation, imprinting, and operant or accidental conditioning are forms of learning.

• A. Conditioned stimuli
• B. Unconditioned stimuli
• C. Change
• D. Association
• E. All of the above

Explanation: Classical conditioning depends on forming an association between stimuli, so a previously neutral stimulus can acquire the power to elicit…

• A. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
• B. Conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response
• C. Unconditioned stimulus, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned response
• D. Unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response
• E. Conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, unconditioned stimulus

Explanation: Food naturally produces salivation, making food the unconditioned stimulus and salivation the unconditioned response.

• A. The UR and CR are not always the same response
• B. Organisms come to generally behave toward conditioned stimulus as they do unconditioned stimulus
• C. Stimulus situation
• D. The UR and CR are always the same response
• E. (a), (b) and (c)

Explanation: The conditioned response often resembles the unconditioned response, but it is not necessarily identical, and organisms learn to respond…

• A. The law of effect relates to Pavlov's proposal that reward will strengthen the connection between the response that preceded it and any stimuli present when it is delivered
• B. In modern terminology, Thorndike's 'satisfiers' and 'annoyers' are called enforces and punishers
• C. In the law of effect, a stimulus-response (S-R) association is learned
• D. It is generally thought that the likelihood of an animal responding in a particular way cannot be controlled by the consequence of the response

Explanation: Thorndike’s law of effect states that consequences strengthen or weaken the stimulus-response connection, so an S-R association is…

• A. Contiguity and conditioning
• B. Habituation and contiguity
• C. Blocking and preparedness
• D. Blocking and autoshaping
• E. Preparedness and conditioning

Explanation: Blocking prevents a new cue from gaining control when an older cue already predicts the outcome, while preparedness makes some…

• A. 1,2 & 3
• B. 2,3 & 4
• C. 1,2 & 4
• D. 4

Explanation: Habituation is a response decline after repeated exposure, and dishabituation is its temporary return after a salient additional stimulus.