A principle of learning can best be characterized as:
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Correct Answer:
A statement that describes how a particular factor affects learning
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Question 2
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The best perspective regarding various theories of learning is that:
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Correct Answer:
Different the...
A principle of learning can best be characterized as:
Answer
Correct Answer:
A statement that describes how a particular factor affects learning
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Question 2
3.2 out of 3.2 points
The best perspective regarding various theories of learning is that:
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Correct Answer:
Different theories may be applicable in different situations.
• Question 3
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Human beings undoubtedly learn more during the course of a lifetime than any other
species on earth. The major result of this capacity to learn is that:
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Correct Answer:
Humans can benefit from their experiences.
• Question 4
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Three of the following are principles of learning. Which one is a theory of learning rather
than a principle?
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Correct Answer:
People learn by making mental associations between new information and their existing
knowledge.
• Question 5
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Which one of the following statements is the most accurate statement regarding theories
of learning?
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,Correct Answer:
They are often modified as new data emerge.
• Question 6
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Which one of the following best describes mirror neurons?
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Correct Answer:
They fire when a person either makes a particular response or observes someone else make that
response.
• Question 7
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Which one of the following best describes the growth of neurons during the prenatal
period?
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Correct Answer:
An overabundance of neurons emerges early in prenatal development, but about half of the
neurons die before birth.
• Question 8
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Three of the following describe methods that researchers commonly use to determine
how the human brain probably functions. hich one is not a commonly used method to study the
brain?
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Correct Answer:
Measuring the levels of various hormones and other substances in the blood
• Question 9
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Which one of the following statements most accurately describes a neuron's threshold of
excitation?
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Correct Answer:
A neuron fires only when its electrical charge reaches a particular level.
• Question 10
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After a severe head injury, Mary has exceptional difficulty setting goals and in other ways
planning her actions. Without knowing anything else about Mary's injury, you might reasonably
conclude that it affected her:
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Correct Answer:
forebrain
• Question 11
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Which one of the following best exemplifies experience-expectant plasticity?
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Correct Answer:
Mastering one's native language
• Question 12
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Which one of the following best exemplifies experience-dependent plasticity?
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Correct Answer:
Learning how to read
• Question 13
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A smoker is asked to smoke one cigarette after another until she is unable to continue any
longer. Which method for breaking bad habits is best illustrated in this situation?
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Correct Answer:
Exhaustion method
• Question 14
3.2 out of 3.2 points
Which one of the following statements best describes the view of early behaviorists about
how learning can best be studied?
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, Correct Answer:
The study of learning will be more objective and scientific if only observable events are
considered.
• Question 15
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Which one of the following characteristics of behaviorist learning theories is a direct
outgrowth of the equipotentiality assumption?
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Correct Answer:
Conclusions derived from research with rats are applicable to human learning.
• Question 16
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After a painful experience at one dentist's office, Teresa's mother takes Teresa to a
different dentist, who takes great care to make her visits painless. Teresa is anxious at first, but
after a few visits, Teresa gradually becomes less resistant about going to the new dentist. Teresa's
change in behavior can probably best be explained in terms of _____. But then Teresa does not
go to see the dentist for three years. On her first visit to the painless dentist after that time
interval, she is anxious once again, even though she had not been anxious in her previous visits.
The return of this response after it had previously disappeared is known as _____.
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Correct Answer:
extinction; spontaneous recovery
• Question 17
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Classical conditioning typically occurs when:
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Correct Answer:
Two stimuli are presented at about the same time.
• Question 18
3.2 out of 3.2 points
Ivan Pavlov conducted a series of studies that led him to propose his theory of classical
conditioning. In these studies, Pavlov observed how a dog learned to:
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