Evolution + Research + Learning

Question 1

Sampling error doesn't depend on sample size.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

Domain-specific competition is the idea that function is specific to a particular brain domain.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Escape behaviour is preventing a bad event from beginning.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

Operant behaviour is controlled by consequences.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

An example of a primary reinforcer is...

Accepted Answer

Food

Question 6

Cultural evolution can be used to explain some features of religion.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Between-group designs are good for controlling environmental confounds.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

What is the main weakness of experimental designs?

Accepted Answer

Depends on an artificial environment

Question 9

How do we shape learning?

Accepted Answer

Reinforce behaviours closer and closer to the desired response

Question 10

Homology is the development of different traits despite a common ancestor.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

What's the difference between a genotype and a phenotype?

Accepted Answer

A genotype is inherited, a phenotype is expressed

Question 12

What is learning?

Accepted Answer

Long lasting changes in behaviour caused by the environment

Question 13

Avoidant behaviour is preventing a bad event from beginning.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

An example of a secondary reinforcer is...

Accepted Answer

Money

Question 15

Giving someone chocolate for cleaning their room is an example of...

Accepted Answer

Positive reinforcement

Question 16

Operant behaviour and operant conditioning are the same thing.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

Conformity bias is copying the majority.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Sampling error is unavoidable error that occurs from sampling.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

Most Psychology is...

Accepted Answer

WEIRD

Question 20

Which topic have you found most difficult so far?

Accepted Answer

Research Methods (Week 2), Evolutionary Psychology (Week 1), They've all been difficult, Learning (Week 3)

Question 21

Type I Errors are accepting the null when it's false.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

The Miller-Mowrer Shuttle Box is an example of...

Accepted Answer

Conditioned anxiety

Question 23

What is over-imitation?

Accepted Answer

Copying a behaviour even when it seems irrelevant

Question 24

Within-subject designs are useful for controlling subject confounds.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

What four things does natural selection require?

Accepted Answer

variation, heritability, design differences, competition

Question 26

Comparative Psychologists study animals to find out more about humans.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

What is the main weakness of observational experiments?

Accepted Answer

Can't imply causation

Question 28

Dominant alleles are expressed in both homozygous and heterozygous pairs.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

What is the independent variable?

Accepted Answer

The variable being manipulated

Question 30

Why do we study animal models for learning?

Accepted Answer

Past history can be known, Easier to simplify and control the environment

Question 31

Type II Errors are accepting the null when it's false.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

Prestige bias is copying the successful.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

Correlation always proves causation.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 34

What is contingency?

Accepted Answer

The response causes the reinforcer

Question 35

If we accept the null hypothesis, this means...

Accepted Answer

We reject the alternative hypothesis, There's no real effect

Question 36

Control groups are groups with the manipulation in an experiment.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 37

Intermittent reinforcement is when only some responses are reinforced.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

What is the dependent variable?

Accepted Answer

The variable being measured

Question 39

What's the treatment for phenylketonuria?

Accepted Answer

A diet low in phenylalanine

Question 40

What's a gene?

Accepted Answer

A piece of DNA that codes a specific protein

Question 41

What is the law of effect?

Accepted Answer

More likely to repeat behaviours with favourable consequences

Question 42

Taking away a child's toys when they're naughty is an example of...

Accepted Answer

Negative punishment

Question 43

Heterozygous means two identical alleles for a trait.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 44

What trait is monoamine oxidase A associated with?

Accepted Answer

Violence in males

Question 45

Which type of reinforcement is the most successful?

Accepted Answer

Intermittent

Question 46

Convergent evolution is the development of different traits despite common ancestors.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 47

Positive punishment means good punishment, negative means bad.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 48

Law of Effect means that reinforced responses will increase.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 49

What is the most common significance level used to reject the null hypothesis?

Accepted Answer

0.05

Question 50

Continuous reinforcement is where every response is reinforced.

Accepted Answer

True

Evolution + Research + Learning

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Evolution + Research + Learning

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