What is Psychology? — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question

The experimental method is in many ways, the best method for gathering scientific information.

1. True.
2. False.

Negative reinforcers are usually painful, or noxious events, such as an electric shock, for example.

1. True.
2. False.

Non-participant observation research involves devising precise, comprehensive, and usable behaviour categories.

1. True.
2. False.

When a control group is used, the groups should be equivalent in every way except for the independent variable.

1. True.
2. False.

The work of the counseling psychologist is quite similar to that of the clinical psychologist.

1. True.
2. False.

The response evoked by the conditioned stimulus after learning is known as conditioned response.

1. True.
2. False.

The main method used by the structuralists to discover these elementary units of mind was introspection.

1. True.
2. False.

The dependent variable is so called because its value depends or may depend on the value of the independent variable- the one independently chosen and directly manipulated by the experimenter.

1. True.
2. False.

That extinction does not completely erase conditioning is also shown by the fact that reconditioning is usually more rapid than was the original conditioning.

1. True.
2. False.

Learning is defined as any relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs as a result of practice or experience.

1. True.
2. False.