Which of the following learned behavior involves a brief sensitive period, also called critical period?
a) imprinting
b) habituation
c) insight learning
d) classical conditioning
Explanation: sensitive period is limited developmental phase when certain behavior can be learned
Who showed that the principle imprinting stimulus in graylag geese is a nearby object that is moving away from the young?
a) Lamarck
b) Konard Lorenz
c) Wallace
d) F. Galton
Explanation: the scientific name of graylag geese is Anser anser
When
incubator hatched golings spent their first few hours with Lorenz rather than
with a goose, they followed him from then on; what is this behavior?
a) imprinting
b) habituation
c) insight learning
d) classical conditioning
Explanation: furthermore they showed no recognition of their biological mother or other adults of their own species.
In a series of experiments, who set out to provoke a conditioned response to a previously neutral stimulus?
a) Lamarck
b) Pavlov
c) Wallace
d) F. Galton
Explanation: this is classical conditioning (type I learning)
Pavlov opted to use……..as the unconditioned stimulus or the stimulus that evokes a response naturally and automatically.
a) cat
b) food
c) bate
d) bell
Pavlov
worked with……..during the discovery of classical conditioning or Type I
learning?
a) cat
b) rats
c) dog
d) monkey
