06 - Social Learning and Pain

Revision Questions 06 – Social learning; pain
HLTHPSYC 122
06 - Social learning; Pain (Lec 9-10)
Revision Questions
Observational learning
1) John sees others being praised for using good penmanship and now he attempts to use
good penmanship. This behaviour is reflective of _____________ learning.
a) observational
b) conditional
c) stimulus response
d) stimulus organism response
2) Which of the following is the best example of observational learning?
a) Greg hears on the radio that a huge storm is blowing in, so he cancels his trip.
b) After several hours of staring at the computer screen, Marley suddenly realises the
solution to the puzzle he is trying to solve.
c) Carey figures out if she doesn’t give her boss a hard time, he’s a lot nicer to be
around.
d) Ingrid swam poorly until she noticed the efficient stroke of the man in the next lane;
now her swimming is greatly improved
3) Which of the following is true concerning Bandura’s classic ‘Bobo doll’ study?
a) Exposure to aggressive models led to increased aggression in pre-school children.

b) Exposure to aggressive models did not influence levels of aggression in nursery
school children.
c) Exposure to aggressive models led to decreased levels of aggression in nursery
school children.
d) Exposure to nonaggressive models led to decreased levels of aggression in nursery
school children.
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4) Albert Bandura and his colleagues were able to get the same findings in their
observational learning research when children watched aggressive models on film as
they did when children watched aggressive models in person. This lent additional
support for Bandura’s claims that observational learning represents a significant process
by which certain behaviours are acquired. This demonstrates the critical-thinking
concept of ______________.
a) extraordinary claims
b) correlation versus causation
c) falsifiability
d) replicability
Locus of control
5) The extent to which people believe that reinforcers and punishers lie inside or outside of
their control refers to _____________.
a) humanism
b) locus of control
c) self-actualisation
d) Archetypes
6) Adam is upset. He tells his roommate that if his psychology teacher knew how to teach,
he would not have failed his assignment. What locus of control is Adam demonstrating?
a) Latent
b) Reciprocal
c) Internal
d) External
7) Which individual has an internal locus of control?

a) Carrie, who believes that her team will lose if she doesn't wear her lucky ribbon
b) Jackie, who believes that she will get an ‘A’ if she studies hard enough
c) Amelia, who believes that she was fated to break up with her boyfriend
d) Courtney, who believes that she will win the lottery this week
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8) Which of the following statements would Martin Seligman most expect a depressed
person to make?
a) I hate myself.
b) Some people really hate me.
c) Nothing that I do matters.
d) I can do it if I try.
9) While sitting in the movie theatre watching the latest Iron Man movie, Michael hears a
person behind him talking on his mobile phone. ‘What an inconsiderate jerk that person
is’, Michael thinks to himself. He does not consider that the telephone call may have
been some very serious emergency that required immediate attention. Michael has
fallen prey to the ____________________________ error.
a) self-serving
b) fundamental attribution
c) ultimate attribution
d) actor-observer
10) A(n) ____________________________ attribution is made when we blame an

individual’s behaviour on the situation; a(n) ____________________________
attribution is made when we blame the individual’s behaviour on his or her personality
or other personal characteristics.
a) external; situational
b) internal; external
c) external; internal
d) dispositional; situational
11) When their friend Vincent was walking down the hall after a pleasant conversation, Neil
and Michaela watched as he suddenly tripped and fell to the floor, scattering his
schoolbooks all over the hallway. They ran over to him, helped him pick up his books,
and commented, ‘I didn’t know that the floor was so slippery in this part of the hall!’ Neil
and Michaela have made a(n) ____________________ attribution to explain why
Vincent fell over.
a) dispositional
b) assistive
c) situational
d) cooperative
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12) What is the underlying reason why we tend to make attributional mistakes?
a) We generally do not pay enough attention to our surroundings, and so miss

essential information that would help us avoid attributional mistakes
b) We are generally quick to assume the worst of intents in other people, so this leads
us to attributional mistakes
c) We don’t have enough information to know why a person behaved as they did, so
we make rapid assumptions
d) We are more concerned with getting an attribution made quickly than getting it
made correctly, and this causes us to make mistakes
PAIN (can be included from Quiz 4 onwards only)
13) Why is it that rubbing the site of an injury can make it feel like the pain caused by that
injury is being reduced?
a) Because vigorous rubbing of an injury site can help to close the "pain gates" in the
spinal cord.
b) Because the "nocebo" effect is activated.
c) Because touch messages travel faster than pain messages, and so rubbing the injury
will overload the brain with touch messages that are not pain-oriented.
d) Because vigorous rubbing of an injury site leads to a greater release of endorphins.
14) The idea that pain is blocked or gated from consciousness by neural mechanisms in the
spinal cord is known as the [blank] model.
a) autonomic
b) gate control
c) threshold
d) bottom-up
15) The somatosensory system responds to sensory information about ________.
a) taste and smell.
b) sound and vision.
c) temperature, touch and pain.
d) body position and equilibrium.
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16) 20. Huey, Dewey and Louie are playing soccer and each rolls his ankle. However, Huey is
experiencing such pain that he isn’t willing to put any weight on his leg while Dewey and
Louie continue to play. This provides evidence that people have different [blank]
experiences of pain.
a) Objective
b) Subjective
c) Physical
d) Autonomic
17) Which of the following best describes chronic pain?

a) Pain that has lasted for 3 months or more, impacts individual and family wellbeing,
affects 1 in 6 New Zealanders
b) Pain that has lasted for 3 months or more, can be easily treated with medication,
c) Pain that has lasted for 1 month or more, can be easily treated with medication,
d) Pain that has lasted for 1 month or more, impacts individual and family wellbeing,
18) What are three key psychological factors the influence the experience of pain?
a) Amount of tissue damage, attention and cognition
b) Attention, cognition and mood
c) Mood, tolerance and cognition
d) Mood, attention and threat level
19) Which of these is a common response to pain according to the operant conditioning
model?
a) Active coping
b) Withdrawal behaviors
c) Emotion
d) Positive punishment
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Revision Questions 06 – Social learning; pain

2) Which of the following is the best example of observational learning?

a) Exposure to aggressive models led to increased aggression in pre-school children.

7) Which individual has an internal locus of control?

10) A(n) ____________________________ attribution is made when we blame an

a) We generally do not pay enough attention to our surroundings, and so miss

PAIN (can be included from Quiz 4 onwards only)

17) Which of the following best describes chronic pain?

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