Lesson 2.3.1

2.3.1 External influences on children's behaviour Quiz: OCR Psychology, Unit 2

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The 20 questions

  1. Which core developmental study investigated the external influence of adult aggression on children?

    • Bandura et al.
    • Casey et al.
    • Kohlberg
    • Lee et al.
  2. In Bandura's study, what was the name of the inflated doll used as the target for aggression?

    • Bobo doll
    • Buster clown
    • Punching bear
    • Tough toy
  3. How many children in total took part in the main 1961 Bandura et al. aggression study?

    • 72 children
    • 40 children
    • 36 children
    • 120 children
  4. Which sampling technique was primarily used to select participants for the Bandura et al. study?

    • Opportunity sampling
    • Random sampling
    • Stratified sampling
    • Self-selected sampling
  5. Before testing, how were the children rated to ensure baseline aggression was evenly distributed?

    • Random sorting
    • Age matching
    • Self-selection
    • Matched pairs
  6. What key learning mechanism underpins how children imitate observed behaviours from external role models?

    • Biological maturation
    • Classical conditioning
    • Social learning
    • Operant conditioning
  7. Which gender of children showed significantly more imitative physical aggression towards the doll in Bandura's study?

    • Neither
    • Girls
    • Boys
    • Both equally
  8. Leo watches his older brother get praised for tidying toys and immediately tidies his own. What is this called?

    • Primary reinforcement
    • Vicarious reinforcement
    • Classical conditioning
    • Negative punishment
  9. Maya copies her teacher's polite phrasing because she respects her. What psychological term describes this process?

    • Spontaneous recovery
    • Habituation
    • Identification
    • Extinction
  10. Jake sees a peer punished for hitting and decides not to hit. What external process influenced his choice?

    • Direct reinforcement
    • Classical conditioning
    • Positive reinforcement
    • Vicarious punishment
  11. Sam pays close attention to a football coach demonstrating a trick. Which cognitive requirement for imitation is this?

    • Attention
    • Retention
    • Reproduction
    • Motivation
  12. Chloe remembers the steps of a recipe she saw on TV the next day. Which mediational process has occurred?

    • Reinforcement
    • Attention
    • Identification
    • Retention
  13. Zack wants a prize, so he copies a classmate who raised their hand. Which mediational process drives Zack?

    • Maturation
    • Motivation
    • Retention
    • Attention
  14. What ethical guideline is potentially compromised when exposing young children to aggressive adult role models?

    • Deception
    • Protection from harm
    • Informed consent
    • Right to withdraw
  15. How does the developmental area view external environmental influences compared to the biological area?

    • Maturation exclusively
    • Genetics only
    • Nature over nurture
    • Nurture over nature
  16. What is a major strength of using standardised procedures in developmental studies like Bandura et al.?

    • Natural realism
    • Ecological validity
    • High replicability
    • Informed consent
  17. Which key concept involves a child acquiring a completely new behaviour pattern simply by watching an external model?

    • Modelling
    • Habituation
    • Maturation
    • Extinction
  18. What term describes the reinforcement a child's external role model receives, which still increases the child's imitation?

    • Vicarious reinforcement
    • Direct conditioning
    • Negative punishment
    • Primary reinforcement
  19. Which of Bandura's four mediational processes directly follows attention and retention in observational learning?

    • Reproduction
    • Extinction
    • Motivation
    • Identification
  20. Which type of external model was found to produce the highest level of physical imitation in Bandura's study?

    • Passive model
    • Cartoon model
    • Live model
    • Film model

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