PSY test 3

Loreta, a 10-year-old girl, is a budding singer and, her parents ask her to showcase her talents every time they have guests at home. Loreta likes it when everybody praises her. Therefore, she attends classes and practices singing regularly. Which of the following is influencing her the most?

Extrinsic motivation

Which of the follow terms refers to the shortcuts people take to make complex and uncertain decisions and judgments

Heuristic

Shane's father wants him to train as an investment banker and join the family business. Although Shane respects his father's opinion, he is very clear that he wants to be an author considering that he is extremely passionate about writing. Which of the following is guiding Shane's choice of profession?

Intrinsic motivation

Skinners explanation of language could not fully explain how human learn language because

It did not explain how new words were uttered without imitation and reinforcement

Which of the following is true motivation

It is caused by some need.

Nancy, a three-year old, enters a store by pushing a door open. Every time she comes to a door after that, she pushes the door expecting it to open even though many doors open by pulling rather than pushing. What is this an example of?

Mental set

_______ is defined as the urge to move toward one's goal

Motivation

_________ are inherently biological states of cellular or bodily deficiency that compel drives

Needs

The beeper sounds in your car until you fasten your seatbelts. The removal of the annoying beeping is _________ for fastening the seatbelt

Negative reinforcement

Spanking a child for repeatedly breaking glass showpieces is a form of ___________.

Positive punishment

Natalie is a kindergarten teacher. She gives a candy to the students who successfully complete their activities in class. This ensures that her students pay attention to what is being taught in class. Natalie's act of giving students a candy or a toy for paying attention in class is an example of

Positive reinforcement

____________ is defined as a device people use when they make decisions based on the ease wot which estimates come to mind or hw available they are to there awareness

The availability heuristic

Which of the following best describes cognitive fixation

The inability to break out of a particular mind-set in oder to think about a problem from a fresh perspective

Which of the following is a necessary criterion for something to be regarded as creative

Aesthetics

An _________ is the process by which two pieces of information from the environment are repeatedly links, so that we begin to connect them in our minds

Association

When Anna was a child, a dog named Max used to bark at her whenever she walked past him, and even bit her once. As an adult, whenever she meets a pet named Max, her palms start to sweat and her heart races. What is Anna's behavior an example of?

Association

Classical conditioning occurs when an organism

associates a previously neutral stimulus with a stimulus to which it has an automatic, inborn response

The term _______ is defined as the inherent drive to realize one's full potential

"Self actualization"

What is the optimal learning time for language acquisitions

0-12

Which of the following situations is most likely to occur according to the law of effect

A person who receives a desired message is more likely to check e-mails more often

Who among the following argues that humans are born with an innate, biologically based capacity to acquire language

Chomsky

What is the distinction between classical conditioning and operant conditioning

Classical conditioning involves learning based on association between stimuli whereas operant conditioning involves learning based on behavioral consequences

Which of the following refers to the science of how people think, learn, remember and perceive

Cognitive psychology

A bird has two legs, two eyes and feathers and It uses Its wings to fly in the sky. The organizing of this information about birds is known as

Concept

The tendency to selectivity attend to information that supports one's general beliefs while ignoring information or evidence that contradicts one's belief is known as

Conformation bias

The ability to generate original ideas or develop a novel solution to problems is known as

Divergent thinking

Which of the following explains inductive reasoning

Drawing general conclusions from specific evidence

Which of the following statements describes linguistic determinism hypothesis

Language determines our way of thinking and our perception of the world

Brenda recently joined a new company. She watches how her colleagues dress and act so that she can fit in better. This type of learning is referred to as ___________.

Observational learning

The _________ of motivation argues that humans are motivated to be in situations that are neither too stimulating nor not stimulating enough

Optimal arousal model

Which of the following is more important for extrinsic motivation than for intrinsic motivation

Reward

Which of the following is true for convergent thinking problems

They have known solutions, which can be reached by narrowing down a set of possible answers

The two types of conditioning are

classical and operant

_________ are the perceived states of tension that occur when our bodies are deficient in some need

drive