Exam 2 practice test – Flashcards
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The type of learning in which an organism learns to _______ one stimulus with another is called classical conditioning
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ASSOCIATE
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Negative punishment will ______ the occurrence of a behavior
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DECREASE
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When a desirable stimulus is presented to an organism, it is known as _____
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REINFORCEMENT.
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According to the model of memory proposed by Atkinson and Shriffin, the components of memory are _________ , ___________, __________.
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SENSORY MEMORY, SHORT-TERM MEMORY, AND LONG -TERM MEMORY
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The process of drawing information out of storage is ______
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RETRIEVAL.
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There is a limit to the amount of information we can store in _______ - term memory.
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SENSORY AND SHORT
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Essay question test _____, whereas multiple-choice questions test ______
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RECALL, RECOGNITION
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Jordan was in a car collision and can no longer remember the last few hours. Jordan is experiencing __________ amnesia.
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RETROGRADE
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_____ refers to the phenomenon where a person can't recall a trauma that occurred in their life because it's too painful to remember.
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REPRESSION
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The phenomenon of not being able to recall the first few years of life is referred to as _______
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CHILDHOOD AMNESIA
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Aaron is trying to solve a puzzle that requires him to use a hammer as a pendulum, not as a means of smashing something. What is Aaron experiencing?
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FUNCTIONAL FIXEDNESS.
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Computers can sort through all possible solutions to problems because they aren't limited by ____ _____.
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WORKING MEMORY
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A test that can achieve consistent scores on a sample of the same individual is ______
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RELIABLE
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A test that can accurately measure a specific variable, or set of variables, is considered to be______
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VALID
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A _______ reinforcer would be something like food, water, etc.
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PRIMARY
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Most standardized tests of intelligence have a distribution of scores that are _____ distributed
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NORMALLY
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higher levels of testosterone are associated with better _____ ______.
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SPATIAL REASONING.
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What type of person is good at divergent thinking?
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A CREATIVE PERSON
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When a conditioned response suddenly reappears after a period of time following extinction, it is said that the behavior has ______ _______.
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SPONTANEOUSLY RECOVERED
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What role did the rat play in Watson's experiments? ( US , UR, CS , CR)?
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IT WAS THE CONDITIONED STIMULUS
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Chunking increases the capacity of ________- term memory
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SHORT
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________ interference is when old information interferes with the recall of newer information
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PROACTIVE
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_______ ________ is the process of learning something without any reinforcement.
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LATENT LEARNING
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______ thinking involves the discovery of a single correct answer.
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CONVERGENT
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If an animal is taught to do something on a _____ ______ schedule of reinforcement, its unlikely that this behavior with extinguish
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VARIABLE RATIO
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The ______ is very important to the process of storing memories
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HIPPOCAMPUS
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If you want to solve a problem in such a way that you would have absolutely no chance of getting the answer wrong, what kind of process would you use?
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AN ALGORITHIMC ONE
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"He ate a carrot" and "The carrot was eaten by him" are identical in meaning, but they differ in terms of _______.
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SYNTAX.
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Extinction is accomplished by presenting the _____ without the US.
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CS
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______ is a way of increasing the duration of short-term memory.
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REHEARSAL
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means sound is one of the 5 components of language
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Phonemes
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means meaning and is one of the 5 components of language
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Morphemes
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means order and is one of the 5 components of language
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Syntax
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means to have a double meaning and is one of the 5 components of language
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Semantics
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means context and is one of the 5 components of language
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Pragmatics
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old info interferes with the new
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proactive interference
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new info interferes with the old
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retroactive interference
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Ebbinghaus' did research on ______?
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forgetting
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studying in the same similar environments as tested (external)
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context-dependent memory
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consistency in emotions (internal)
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state-dependent memory
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our tendency to recall the first (primary) and last items (recency) in a list
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Serial position effect
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is a type of memory in which previous experiences aid the performance of a task without conscious awareness of these previous experiences.
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Implicit memory
