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When one dog starts sniffing the ground for a potential scrap of food,other dogs' attention may be drawn to that part of the ground,and they may copy this sniffing behavior.This is an example of:


A) observational conditioning.
B) stimulus enhancement.
C) social conformity.
D) contagion.

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In humans:


A) there is overlap between the cortical regions activated by performance of an action and by observing that action being performed.
B) researchers have been able to record directly from mirror neurons in the cortex.
C) cortical regions associated with mirror neurons are different from those in monkeys.
D) Reserchers have had difficulty in locating any brain regions that behave as if they contain mirror neurons.

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Perspective taking is an ability that:


A) requires visual feedback.
B) occurs in most mammals and birds.
C) occurs only for relatively complex behaviors.
D) is possessed by few species other than humans.

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Studies of copying in humans and chimpanzees have shown that _____ copy the details of actions modeled by an adult human.


A) chimpanzees and human children
B) chimpanzees but not human children
C) human children but not chimpanzees
D) neither human children nor chimpanzees

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According to the template model of song learning,a songbird performs stimulus matching during the:


A) first stage.
B) second stage.
C) third stage.
D) all three stages.

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Neurons in _____ respond when a bird hears a song and when it produces the song.


A) the high vocal center (HVC) and the robust nucleus of the archistriatum (RA)
B) area X
C) the basal ganglia
D) the frontal cortex

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Mia saw a movie with her friend,and observed her friend crying during the sad parts.When Mia went to another movie with her parents the following weekend,she began to cry during the sad parts.This is an example of:


A) observational conditioning.
B) stimulus enhancement.
C) social conformity.
D) contagion.

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Mirror neurons are neurons that respond:


A) during both performance and visual observation of an action.
B) when an organism performs an action that is the opposite of the observed action.
C) during true imitation but not during emulation.
D) during observational learning in which visual feedback occurs.

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Which of the following is true regarding mirror neurons?


A) The most common type are those that respond to actions involving the legs and feet.
B) They provide the neural links needed for imitation but not emulation.
C) They respond to the observation of an action performed by a model,but not to the performance of the action by the observer.
D) Some respond most strongly to observation of the outcome,rather than the specific action.

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Which of the following is a characteristic of autism?


A) reduced intellectual abilities
B) normal social skills
C) normal behavior patterns
D) the need for highly consistent routines

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Autistic children:


A) have reduced intellectual abilities.
B) have more trouble imitating individual actions than sequences of actions.
C) cannot recognize when they are being imitated.
D) show more impairment of meaningless gestures than meaningful ones.

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The inborn tendency to react emotionally to stimuli that indicate emotion in other members of one's species is called:


A) observational conditioning.
B) stimulus enhancement.
C) imitation.
D) contagion.

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Which of the following is true?


A) No mammals other than humans can imitate vocalizations as well as birds can.
B) There are a lot of mammals that are good at imitating vocalizations.
C) Humans do not begin to imitate vocalizations until they are about 8 months old.
D) Animals that do not naturally imitate vocalizations can learn the skill.

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In a nursery,if one baby starts crying,there is a tendency for the other babies to also start crying.This is an example of:


A) observational conditioning.
B) stimulus enhancement.
C) vocal learning.
D) contagion.

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In Bandura's Bobo doll study,it was found that:


A) aggressive behavior transferred to other contexts.
B) for girls,aggression was more common when they observed a female model than a male model.
C) only the children who were first provoked showed aggression towards the Bobo doll.
D) the attack styles of the children who behaved aggressively were different from the attack styles of the models they observed.

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Which of the following is an example of social learning?


A) A chimpanzee copies the hand motions made by its trainer.
B) A cat learns through trial and error to escape from a puzzle box.
C) A rat learns the correct route through a maze by being rewarded with food on reaching the end.
D) A dog learns to salivate in response to a bell after the bell is repeatedly followed by food.

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According to the ____ hypothesis,memories for perceived actions are stored in the cortical regions that map observed actions onto the motor representations of those actions.


A) template
B) visual
C) direct-matching
D) stimulus-matching

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When observer rats were exposed to a novel food odor on a demonstrator rat's breath,and then had their hippocampus lesioned,what happened to the lesioned rats' preferences for the novel food?


A) Their preference was reduced the most if the lesion occurred 30 days after their being exposed to the odor.
B) Their preference was reduced the most if the lesion occurred 1 day after their being exposed to the odor.
C) Their preference was enhanced the most if the lesion occurred 30 days after their being exposed to the odor.
D) Their preference was enhanced the most if the lesion occurred 1 day after their being exposed to the odor.

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According to modern social learning theory,learning occurs as a result of:


A) observation.
B) conditioning.
C) both observation and conditioning.
D) both observation and performance of the behavior.

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Which of the following is true regarding people with frontal-lobe damage who exhibit deficits in the ability to imitate?


A) They often lack the motor control necessary to imitate actions.
B) They are less likely to have echolalia.
C) They have a tendency to imitate actions involuntarily.
D) They are completely unable to imitate actions.

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