Psychology Frontiers And Applications Canadian 6th Edition By Passer – Test Bank

Psychology Frontiers And Applications Canadian 6th Edition By Passer – Test Bank

Chapter 07

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) After becoming familiar with her local environment, a coyote learns to go to a specific stream for water when she is thirsty. She also tends to go to a particular shady area when the temperature is hot. These behaviours are best considered as examples of ________.
A) personal adaptation B) species capability
C) stimulus response D) avoidance conditioning
Answer: A
Topic: 07- 01 Adapting to the Environment
LO: 07- 01 Adapting to the Environment 1)
2) Psychologists define the general process by which experience produces a relatively 2) enduring change in behaviour or capabilities as ________.
A) extinction B) learning
C) adaptive significance D) habituation
Answer: B
Topic: 07- 02 How Do We Learn? The Search for Mechanisms
LO: 07- 01 Adapting to the Environment
3) Within the field of psychology, ________ focused on how organisms learn by assuming 3) there are general laws of learning that apply to virtually all organisms.
A) Freudian psychologists B) behaviourists
C) ethologists D) neurobiologists
Answer: B
Topic: 07- 02 How Do We Learn? The Search for Mechanisms
LO: 07- 01 Adapting to the Environment
4) A change in behaviour that results merely from repeated exposure to a stimulus is called 4) ________, whereas ________ involves learning associations between events.
A) conditioning; habituation B) habituation; conditioning
C) adapting; habituation D) habituation; adapting
Answer: B
Topic: 07- 03 Habituation and Sensitization
LO: 07- 01 Adapting to the Environment
5) The decreasing response to a repeated stimulus is defined as ________. 5)
A) extinction B) habituation
C) latent learning D) sensitization
Answer: B
Topic: 07- 03 Habituation and Sensitization
LO: 07- 01 Adapting to the Environment

6) If we responded continuously to every stimulus in the environment we would quickly become fatigued and overwhelmed which means that ________ has strong adaptive significance.
A) extinction B) habituation
C) sensitization D) one-trial learning
Answer: B
Topic: 07- 03 Habituation and Sensitization
LO: 07- 01 Adapting to the Environment 6)
7) Habituation has ________ because it allows organisms to learn NOT to respond to 7) ________ stimuli.
A) a low response cost; novel
B) strong adaptive significance; uneventful and familiar C) extinction value; changing
D) high secondary reinforcement value; discriminative
Answer: B
Topic: 07- 03 Habituation and Sensitization
LO: 07- 01 Adapting to the Environment
8) Which of the following provides the best definition of sensitization? It is a(n) ________ 8) stimulus.
A) continuous response to a discriminative
B) increase in the strength of response to a repeated
C) decrease in the strength of response to a repeated D) acquisition of a response to an increasing s
Answer: B
Topic: 07- 03 Habituation and Sensitization
LO: 07- 01 Adapting to the Environment
9) Tyler wakes up to a noisy drilling machine from the neighbour’s house. He is unable to 9) concentrate on his work from the disturbing loud drilling. As the day goes by, he is able to do his work despite the noise from the drilling machine being as loud as it was when it started. Tyler has ________.
A) given up B) become ignorant of the noise
C) got habituated to the noise D) got sensitized to the noise
Answer: C
Topic: 07- 03 Habituation and Sensitization
LO: 07- 01 Adapting to the Environment