Psych Exam 3 – Flashcards

The brains of people with Alzheimer's disease develop an abundance of ________ and __________.

Explicit memory is to ______ as implicit memory is to _________.

The mental processes that enable us to acquire, retain, and retrieve information.

When a sparkler seems to produce a trailing afterimage that fades within a split second.

Watson and Skinner believed that psychologists should only study __________.

According to Pavlov's terminology reflexively withdrawing your foot from a hot bath would be _________.

A phenomenon in which existing memories are distorted by exposing people to misleading information is known as...

A cat in a Skinner box is reinforced for the first bar press it makes after one minute has elapsed. The cat is on a _________ schedule of reinforcement

An opossum in a Skinner box receives food every ten time the bar is pressed. The opossum is on a _________ schedule of reinforcement

Jeanette is having difficulty remembering past events, Jeanette is therefore experiencing _________.

Sam is unable to form new memories. Sam is therefore experiencing _______.

Who conducted the Bobo doll research?

The bobo research showed _______.

In operant conditioning, an environmental stimulus or cue in the presence of which a particular response is more likely to be reinforced is known as which type of stimulus?

Ivan Pavlov discovered the basic process of ________.

Changing information so that it can be entered and retained in our memory is the process of __________.

Conditioning is the process of learning associations between _______ events and _ _______ responses

When Honey Boo Boo is happy she is more likely to recall positive or pleasant memories. This an encoding phenomenon called _______.

A neutral stimulus and a stimulus that naturally elicits a response is repeatedly paired to produce a learned response in.....

Retrieval is the process of accessing information stored in ______ memory

Alzheimer's disease is one of the most common forms of ________.

Associating two stimuli is involved in ________.

Associating a response with a consequence is involved in ________.

A voluntary action is called a ________.

Behavior elicited by stimulus is involved in________.

Behavior emitted by an organism is involved with _________.

Tears would be termed as _________ in a scenario in which you are cutting an onion.

The onion would be termed as _________ in the scenario in which you begin to produce tears as you cut an onion.

Negative reinforcement __________ the likelihood of behavior being repeated.

A positive reinforcement ______ the likelihood of a behavior being repeated

Skinner's term that describes the active behaviors that operate on the environment to generate consequences is ___________.

A cat that salivates to a key on the piano was also found to salivate when a different key was struck. This phenomenon is called...

Storage is the process of ________ information in memory so that it can be used at a later time.

This term in operant conditioning is defined by either increasing or decreasing behavior.

Matt could not remember the name of the wife of his cousin. Matt began reciting the alphabet until a letter triggered his memory. What served as retrieval cue in this situation?

According to the stage mode of memory, memory involves the stage of ______,________,______.

The idea that an organism is predisposed to form association between certain stimuli

Repression is to motivating forgetting that occurs unconsciously as suppression is to _______.

Memory that cannot be consciously recollected is called _________.

Procedural memory is knowledge of how to perform _______ and _________.

Knowledge of facts, concepts and ideas is called ________ memory.

How long is information stored in short term memory?

A horse learned to salivate when a song is paired with food. The song was then paired with another song. Now the horse salivates to that song even though it is not paired with food.

Short term memory is also called ________.

involves the sensation of knowing that specific information is stored in long-term memory but being unable to retrieve it

Gradual weakening and apparent disappearance of conditioned behavior (salivation to bell); occurs when the conditioned stimulus (bell) is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus (food).