PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

CLOZE TEST

PREPARATORY SET-26 (NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): In the passage given below, certain words are maintained in bold. Choose among the given alternatives, the option which is most opposite to the word given in bold.

 

Many arrangements of positive and negative stimuli are possible in discrimination …(1)… learning experiments. For example, the positive and the negative example can be presented simultaneously- in the case of a pigeon in an operant chamber. In this case the experimenter will have to switch the position of the positive and negative stimuli occasionally to be sure that the pigeon is learning to respond to the stimulus and not to a particular side. For all the conceivable …(2)… stimulus arrangements, the general principle are the same: Discriminations are developed when differences in the reinforcement of a response accompany the presence of different stimuli. As we have said, perhaps the most common reinforcement difference used to bring about discrimination is simply the difference between reinforcement in the presence of one stimulus and no reinforcement …(3)… or extinction, in the presence of another stimulus.

 

As an example of the everyday importance of discrimination learning, think for a moment about the routine of our daily lives. There is a time and a place for most of the cognitive …(4)… things we do. When some stimuli are present, we respond in one way; when others are present we behave in another way. We have learned to work in the presence of one stimulus and to play when others are present. This helps us to appreciate the power of the concept of the stimulus control of behaviour in helping to explain and predict …(5)… what we do in everyday “real –life” situations.

Question No : 1

(1) Prejudice   

(2) Bigotry      

(3) Inequity     

(4) Partisanship           

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

(1) Imaginable

(2) Thinkable  

(3) Incredible  

(4) Unbelievable         

(5) Unimaginable

Question No : 3

(1) Augmentation                          

(2) Supplementary

(3) Auxiliaries

(4) Annihilation                      

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

(1) Psychical    

(2) Subjective  

(3) Intellective

(4) Rational     

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

(1) Estimate    

(2) Prognosticate        

(3) Auspicate  

(4) Adumbrate

(5) None of these