According to the Definition of Learning, How Could a Researcher

question 145

Multiple Choice

According to the definition of learning, how could a researcher ever show that cognitive learning had taken place in a subject?

• A) By measuring a behavioural change that could directly be tied to a previous experience
• B) The researcher would have an intuitive feel for the amount of learning the subject had experienced.
• C) Through the process of elimination - by showing that the person had not learned through classical or instrumental conditioning.
• D) Only by asking the subject if he or she had learned something
• E) By measuring the brainwave pattern of the subject

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Definitions:

Beliefs and Values

Fundamental convictions or ideals that guide an individual's actions, decisions, and understanding of the world.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Bizarre Way

In an extremely unusual or strange manner that is far from normal or conventional.

Shaping

A learning procedure in which successive approximations of the desired behavior are rewarded until finally the exact and complete behavior is learned.