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This document contains a 10 question quiz on concepts from the first week of lectures in a Psychology of Learning course. The questions cover topics like the definition of learning as a relatively permanent change in behavior resulting from experience, cognitive definitions of learning referring to changes in mental constructs, John B. Watson being an early psychologist to study how learning influences behavior, and examples of different types of learning like habituation and cooperative learning emphasizing information exchange between participants. The document provides the question, multiple choice answers, correct answer, and a prompt to review the lecture notes for each question.

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Assignment 1 Solution

This document contains a 10 question quiz on concepts from the first week of lectures in a Psychology of Learning course. The questions cover topics like the definition of learning as a relatively permanent change in behavior resulting from experience, cognitive definitions of learning referring to changes in mental constructs, John B. Watson being an early psychologist to study how learning influences behavior, and examples of different types of learning like habituation and cooperative learning emphasizing information exchange between participants. The document provides the question, multiple choice answers, correct answer, and a prompt to review the lecture notes for each question.

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NPTEL Week-1 assignment- July 2023

Psychology of Learning

1) Psychologists agree that learning results from ___


a. running
b. talking
c. experience
d. seeing
e. reacting
Ans.= c
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-1 (slide no.02) for better
understanding.

2) Learning is defined as a ___ change in behavior


a. temporary
b. large
c. small
d. easy
e. relatively permanent
Ans.= e
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-1 (slide no.02) for better
understanding.

3) ___ definitions of learning refer to a specific change in mental constructs (e.g.,


knowledge, representations, associations) of an organism.
a. Cognitive
b. Psychodynamic
c. Experimental
d. Anthropological
e. Humanistic
Ans.= a
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-1 (slide no.04) for better
understanding.

4) Who among the following was one of the first psychologists to study how learning
influences behavior?
a. Carl Jung
b. John B. Watson
c. Sigmund Freud

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d. Albert Einstein
e. Abraham Maslow
Ans.= b
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-1 (slide no.07) for better
understanding.

5) Which of the following is not an outcome of effective learning?


a. more connected knowledge
b. more sad and anxious feelings
c. more reflective approach
d. more positive emotions
e. more developed vision of future self as a learner
Ans.= b
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-1 (slide no.12) for better
understanding.

6) Learning that consists of adding to existing student knowledge is known as ___


a. conceptual growth
b. conceptual decline
c. conceptual change
d. conceptual decay
e. conceptual budding
Ans.= a
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-1 (slide no.15) for better
understanding.

7) What type of feedback to students is important for increasing learning?


a. Clear, assertive, and delayed
b. Clear, explanatory, and timely
c. Ambiguous, explanatory, timely
d. Strict, assertive, delayed
e. Clear, harsh, timely
Ans.= b
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-1 (slide no.16) for better
understanding.

8) Getting used to of something like the ticking of a wall clock is an example of


a. Sensitization

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b. Conditioning
c. Meaningful learning
d. Habituation
e. Associative learning
Ans.= d
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-1 (slide no.19) for better
understanding.

9) In ___ learning, special emphasis is placed on exchanges of information as a way of


enriching work and the confluence of ideas
a. associative
b. observational
c. emotional
d. non-associative
e. cooperative
Ans.= e
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-1 (slide no.21-22) for better
understanding.

10) ___ is the process of gradually changing the quality of a response.


a. Modeling
b. Cueing
c. Reinforcement
d. Shaping
e. Punishment
Ans.= d
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-1 (slide no.49) for better
understanding.

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