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Who carried out the Bobo doll experimental studies that established observational learning?Read the answer and worked solution →Which learning disability is most commonly associated with difficulty distinguishing letters like b and d, p and q?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the wrong line on conditioningRead the answer and worked solution →

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Who carried out the Bobo doll experimental studies that established observational learning?

  1. Hermann Ebbinghaus and his colleagues
  2. Ivan P. Pavlov and his colleagues
  3. B.F. Skinner and his colleagues
  4. Albert Bandura and his colleagues
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Correct answer: D. Albert Bandura and his colleagues

1. The chapter explains observational learning as the next form of learning after conditioning. 2. It also calls observational learning by an alternative name, social learning. 3. The chapter names Bandura and his colleagues as the researchers behind a series of studies. 4. Their best-known study used a Bobo doll film with three different reward conditions. 5. Hence the Bobo doll observational learning studies are by Albert Bandura. _Source: syllabus Psychology Ch 5 "Learning", p. 86, Observational Learning_

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Which learning disability is most commonly associated with difficulty distinguishing letters like b and d, p and q?

  1. Dysphasia
  2. Dysgraphia
  3. Dyscalculia
  4. Dyslexia
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Correct answer: D. Dyslexia

1. The chapter introduces learning disabilities as disorders of acquiring core school skills. 2. It notes that a fairly large number of learning-disabled children share one specific pattern. 3. They often fail to copy letters and words and to distinguish b from d, p from q, saw from was. 4. This pattern is named in the chapter as dyslexia. 5. Hence letter-reversal difficulties are most commonly described as dyslexia. _Source: syllabus Psychology Ch 5 "Learning", p. 93, Learning Disabilities_

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Catch the wrong line on conditioning

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Questions
  1. False statement
    Negative reinforcement and punishment are two names for one thing.
    Statements
    1. Negative reinforcement raises the chance of an escape response.
    2. Negative reinforcement and punishment are two names for one thing.
    3. Punishment is a procedure that reduces or suppresses a response.
  2. False statement
    Once a response is extinguished it can never come back.
    Statements
    1. Extinction is the disappearance of a learned response.
    2. A rest gap after extinction can bring the response back.
    3. Once a response is extinguished it can never come back.
  3. False statement
    Discrimination is also a response due to similarity between stimuli.
    Statements
    1. Discrimination is also a response due to similarity between stimuli.
    2. Generalisation is a response due to similarity between stimuli.
    3. How much recovers depends on the time lapsed since extinction.
Instructions
Each set of three lines about conditioning carries one that is not correct. Tap that line.
_Source: syllabus Psychology Ch 5 "Learning", p. 82, Determinants of Operant Conditioning_

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