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Example Questions
Example Question #111 : Experimental
Watson’s “Little Albert” experiment demonstrates which of the following?
None of these
Fear is a learned behavior
Fear is relayed from mother to child
Babies have genetic predispositions to fear
Children see white, furry objects as scary
Fear is a learned behavior
In the study,Watson found the babies did not fear animals until loud noises were paired with their images. In other words, the children were not afraid of the sight of animals; however, fear was induced when sounds were paired with them.
Example Question #112 : Experimental
This type of conditioning is when you take something good away to create a desired behavior. Such as taking away a child's cell phone until they clean their room.
Negative punishment
Classical conditioning
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative reinforcement
Negative reinforcement is an example of operant conditioning. This is when you take something good away to create a desired behavior. Such as taking away a child's cell phone until they clean their room. On the other hand the rest of the listed choices are incorrect. In classical conditioning you can train an animal to have a response to an unrelated stimuli. Positive reinforcement is another example of operant conditioning. This is when you give something good to create a desired behavior. An example of this is giving a child a cookie because they cleaned their room. Negative punishment is when you remove a good thing to decrease a behavior. An example of this is if you remove a child's cell phone for coming home late. Last, positive punishment is when you add something bad to decrease a behavior. An example of this is if you spank a child for misbehaving.
Example Question #113 : Experimental
Which of the following types of conditioning is would best be characterized as when you give something good to create a desired behavior (e.g. giving a child a cookie because they cleaned their room).
Positive punishment
Negative reinforcement
Positive reinforcement
Negative punishment
None of these
Positive reinforcement
Positive punishment is when you add something bad to decrease a behavior. An example of this is if you spank a child for misbehaving. On the other hand, the rest of the listed choices are incorrect. Negative reinforcement is an example of operant conditioning. This is when you take something good away to create a desired behavior. Such as taking away a child's cell phone until they clean their room. Positive reinforcement is another example of operant conditioning. This is when you give something good to create a desired behavior. An example of this is giving a child a cookie because they cleaned their room. Last, "negative punishment" is when you remove a good thing to decrease a behavior. An example of this is if you remove a child's cell phone for coming home late.
Example Question #114 : Experimental
Which of the following types of conditioning is would best be characterized as when you remove a good thing to decrease a behavior (e.g. if you remove a child's cell phone for coming home late)?
Positive punishment
Negative reinforcement
Positive reinforcement
Negative Punishment
None of these
Negative Punishment
Negative punishment is when you remove a good thing to decrease a behavior. An example of this is if you remove a child's cell phone for coming home late. On the other hand, the rest of the listed choices are incorrect. Negative reinforcement is an example of operant conditioning. This is when you take something good away to create a desired behavior. Such as taking away a child's cell phone until they clean their room. This is when you give something good to create a desired behavior. An example of this is giving a child a cookie because they cleaned their room. Last, positive punishment is when you add something bad to decrease a behavior. An example of this is if you spank a child for misbehaving.
Example Question #115 : Experimental
Which of the following types of conditioning is would best be characterized as when you add something bad to decrease a behavior (e.g. if you spank a child for misbehaving)?
Positive reinforcement
Negative punishment
Positive punishment
All of these
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Positive punishment is when you add something bad to decrease a behavior. An example of this is if you spank a child for misbehaving. On the other hand, the rest of the listed choices are incorrect. Negative reinforcement is an example of operant conditioning. This is when you take something good away to create a desired behavior. Such as taking away a child's cell phone until they clean their room. Positive reinforcement is another example of operant conditioning. This is when you give something good to create a desired behavior. An example of this is giving a child a cookie because they cleaned their room. Last, negative punishment is when you remove a good thing to decrease a behavior. An example of this is if you remove a child's cell phone for coming home late.
Example Question #1 : Phonemes, Morphemes, & Phrases
How many morphemes are in the word "beaches"?
Morpheme refers to the smallest unit of language that carries meaning. In the word "beaches" there are two: "beach," and "es" which designates that the word is plural. By contrast, phonemes refer to the smallest units of sound.
Example Question #333 : Gre Subject Test: Psychology
Which of the following is best defined as the smallest unit of language that carries meaning?
Phoneme
Grammar
Word
Concept
Morpheme
Morpheme
"Phonemes" are the smallest unit of language that create sound; however, "morphemes" are the smallest units that carry a meaning.
Example Question #341 : Gre Subject Test: Psychology
A gorilla which has learned a limited form of sign language gains the attention of its trainer and signs the incomplete sentence "treat, bring now."
This is most closely an example of which of the following?
Babbling
Telegraphic speech
Language drift
Overgeneralization
Syntax error
Telegraphic speech
Telegraphic speech is speech during the two-word stage of language acquisition, consisting of commands or imperatives given in three-or-more word sentences consisting of functional words only. A sentence like "treat, bring now" contains enough to make the message effective, if not particularly precise.
Example Question #341 : Gre Subject Test: Psychology
Which of the following words contains an example of a cranberry morpheme?
Deadly
Progeny
Damaging
Killed
Sublimation
Progeny
A cranberry morpheme is a type of morpheme (the smallest meaningful unit of language) which has no independent meaning or function, but which still serves to distinguish one word from another. In this case, progeny contains the the cranberry morpheme '-geny', an obsolete term designating offspring which is also found in exogeny and endogeny.
Example Question #341 : Gre Subject Test: Psychology
Which of the following words contains an example of a cranberry morpheme?
Barometer
Destroyer
Thermometer
Hinterland
Unapologetic
Hinterland
A cranberry morpheme is a type of morpheme (the smallest meaningful unit of language) which has no independent meaning or function, but which still serves to distinguish one word from another. In this case, the term hinterland contains the German word hinter ("behind"), paired with the free morpheme '-land'.