AP Psychology: Unit - 4 - Learning Practice Test

1. Question

Which of the following scenarios illustrates a variable interval schedule of reinforcement?

Receiving a paycheck every two weeks
Holding regular, but unpredictable, fire drills
Earning a prize for every five books read in the library’s summer reading program
Receiving five additional vacation days for each year of employment at a company

2. Question

Brian ate a tuna salad sandwich that had become tainted from being in the sun too long. Not long after eating, Brian became extremely nauseated and felt awful. After that, even the sight of a tuna sandwich caused Brian to feel nauseated. In this scenario, what is the conditioned response (CR)?

tuna
nausea
mayo
sight of any sandwich

3. Question

Maddie gets a speeding ticket, and her parents take her car away for 2 weeks. What type of Operational Conditioning is taking place?

positive punishment
negative punishment
positive reinforcement
negative reinforcement

4. Question

Which form of learning would most likely be studied in an operant chamber (Skinner box)?

classical conditioning
vicarious conditioning
operant conditioning
conditioned emotional responses

5. Question

Through direct experience with animals, small children come to anticipate that dogs will bark and that birds will chirp. This best illustrates what psychological learning concept?

Associative learning
Law of Effect
Latent Learning
Respondent behaviour
Spontaneous recall

6. Question

Maddie gets a speeding ticket, and her parents take her car away for 2 weeks. This is an example of what reinforcement schedule?

Positive punishment
Negative punishment
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Rules enforcement

7. Question

What is an example of a secondary reinforcer?

Instant satisfaction
Money
Food
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement

8. Question

Leah is interested in helping her daughter learn manners. Each time her daughter says something that is close to appropriate, she rewards her. Eventually, her daughter should learn good manners. What term is explained by this process?

Generalization
Habituation
Positive reinforcement
Priming
Shaping

9. Question

Which of the following is an example of a fixed-interval reinforcement schedule?

Being paid by the week
Getting a reward for good behavior once in a while
Getting paid for each time-share you sell
When a dog gets a treat every time it sits on command
Winning money at a slot machine

10. Question

Responding to a stimulus in order to avoid electric shock is an example of what?

Avoidance conditioning
Escape conditioning
Punishment
Shaping
Successive approximation

11. Question

Rats that do not find a positive reinforcer at the end of a maze learn slowly when compared to rats that do find a positive reinforcer at the end of a maze. However, if the first group does begin receiving a positive reinforcement at the end of a maze, their performance in the maze begins to match the second group’s performance. This is an example of what effect?

Behavior chaining
Intrinsic learning
Latent learning
Law of effect
Law of exercise

12. Question

Under which reinforcement schedule is it most important for an organism to learn to accurately estimate time?

Combined ratio
Fixed interval
Fixed ratio
Variable interval
Variable ratio

13. Question

Which is most true of punishment?

It has a long-range inhibitory effect upon behavior.
It is effective as a means of extinction.
It is effective in behavior control without undesirable side effects.
It is effective specifically in cases of retroactive inhibition.
ts inhibitory effect is only short-range, and the general behavior tendency remains essentially unchanged.

14. Question

What is the basis of Thorndike’s Law of Effect?

In addition to practice, there must be reinforcement.
In addition to reinforcement, there must be reward.
Neither practice nor reward is important to learning.
Something learned with reinforcement can never be extinguished.
Practice alone produces learning.

15. Question

The terms “reconditioning” and “spontaneous recovery” both describe the increase in a conditioned response that was believed to be extinguished. What is the key difference between these two terms?

Spontaneous recovery occurs after a period with no exposure to either the conditioned response or unconditioned response, whereas reconditioning occurs after re-exposure to pairings of the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus.
Spontaneous recovery occurs for biologically prepared associations, whereas reconditioning can occur with any arbitrary learned association.
Spontaneous recovery refers to classical conditioning and reconditioning refers to operant conditioning.
Spontaneous recovery refers to positive reinforcement and reconditioning refers to negative reinforcement.
The two terms are synonyms; there is no difference.

16. Question

In signal-detection research, occasionally a subject will report detecting a signal even in the signal’s absence. What is this called?

False alarm
False positive
Hit
Miss
Sandbagging

17. Question

A gambler’s addiction is a result of what reinforcement schedule?

Counterpunishment
Fixed interval
Fixed ratio
Variable interval
Variable ratio

18. Question

When an animal receives a punishment but learns that pressing a button will eliminate the punishment, escape learning takes place. However, if there is no response that will turn off the shock, the situation is best described as what?

Avoidance learning
Second-order conditioning
Learned helplessness
Latent learning
Conditioned emotional response

19. Question

Every day, Zach walks home from school with his sister, Abby. One day, Abby has to stay late for soccer practice, so Zach tries to walk home by himself. He has never done this before, but he is surprised to discover that he learned the route correctly after all of those walks with his sister. What is Zach’s situation an example of?

Accidental learning
Instinctual imprinting
Latent learning
Shaping
Successive approximation

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AP Psychology: Unit – 4 – Learning Practice Test

AP Psychology: Unit – 4 – Learning Practice Test

AP Psychology: Unit – 4 – Learning Practice Test

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1. Question

Which of the following scenarios illustrates a variable interval schedule of reinforcement?

2. Question

Brian ate a tuna salad sandwich that had become tainted from being in the sun too long. Not long after eating, Brian became extremely nauseated and felt awful. After that, even the sight of a tuna sandwich caused Brian to feel nauseated. In this scenario, what is the conditioned response (CR)?

3. Question

Maddie gets a speeding ticket, and her parents take her car away for 2 weeks. What type of Operational Conditioning is taking place?

4. Question

Which form of learning would most likely be studied in an operant chamber (Skinner box)?

5. Question

Through direct experience with animals, small children come to anticipate that dogs will bark and that birds will chirp. This best illustrates what psychological learning concept?

6. Question

Maddie gets a speeding ticket, and her parents take her car away for 2 weeks. This is an example of what reinforcement schedule?

7. Question

What is an example of a secondary reinforcer?

8. Question

Leah is interested in helping her daughter learn manners. Each time her daughter says something that is close to appropriate, she rewards her. Eventually, her daughter should learn good manners. What term is explained by this process?

9. Question

Which of the following is an example of a fixed-interval reinforcement schedule?

10. Question

Responding to a stimulus in order to avoid electric shock is an example of what?

11. Question

12. Question

Under which reinforcement schedule is it most important for an organism to learn to accurately estimate time?

13. Question

Which is most true of punishment?

14. Question

What is the basis of Thorndike’s Law of Effect?

15. Question

The terms “reconditioning” and “spontaneous recovery” both describe the increase in a conditioned response that was believed to be extinguished. What is the key difference between these two terms?

16. Question

In signal-detection research, occasionally a subject will report detecting a signal even in the signal’s absence. What is this called?

17. Question

A gambler’s addiction is a result of what reinforcement schedule?

18. Question

When an animal receives a punishment but learns that pressing a button will eliminate the punishment, escape learning takes place. However, if there is no response that will turn off the shock, the situation is best described as what?

19. Question