A need is food as a motive is to:
Correct answer is: B. Money with which to buy food
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Educational Psychology MCQS
Here are Educational Psychology MCQS that covers psychology, schools of psychology theories of cognitive developments and learning and motivation theories
Jenny has brown hair and blue eyes and is 5’8” tall. What is being described is Jenny’s:
Correct answer is: B. Phenotype
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The link between physical punishment and subsequent aggressive behavior is probably best explained by:
Correct answer is: A. Observational learning
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A spontaneous, heritable change or error in DNA replication is called:
Correct answer is: D. A mutation
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For which of the following assertions is the empirical evidence strongest?
Correct answer is: A. The two cerebral hemispheres are specialized to handle different types of cognitive tasks
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Getting information into memory is called ________; getting information out of memory is called:
Correct answer is: C. Encoding; retrieval
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After repeated pairings of a tone with meat powder, Pavlov found that a dog will salivate when the tone is presented. Salivation to the tone is a(n):
Correct answer is: D. Conditioned response
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The word “big” is flashed on a screen. A mental picture of the word “big” represents a ________ code; the definition “large in size” represents a ________ code; “sounds like pig” represents a ________ code:
Correct answer is: D. Phonemic; structural; semantic
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According to Miller, the capacity of short term memory is:
Correct answer is: D. About 7 "chunks" of information
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Watson and Rayner (1920) conditioned “Little Albert” to fear white rats by banging a hammer on a steel bar as he played with a white rat. Later, it was discovered that Albert feared not only white rats but white stuffed toys and Santa’s beard as well. Albert’s fear of these other objects can be attributed to:
Correct answer is: B. Stimulus generalization
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Which statement best represents current evidence on the durability of long term storage?
Correct answer is: C. There is no convincing evidence that all "one's" memories are stored away permanently
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The phenomenon of higher order conditioning shows that:
Correct answer is: D. An already established CS can be used in the place of a natural UCS
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An organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or sequence of events is called as:
Correct answer is: C. Schema
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Which of the following statements is (are) true?
Correct answer is: C. The distinction between the two types of conditioning is not absolute, with both types jointly and interactively governing some aspects of behavior
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The 2 year old child who refers to every four legged animal as “doggie” is making which of the following errors?
Correct answer is: B. Overextension
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Research suggests that bilingualism has a negative effect on:
Correct answer is: D. None of the above
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A primary reinforcer has ________ reinforcing properties; a secondary reinforcer has ________ reinforcing properties:
Correct answer is: A. Biological; acquired
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