Midterm Review Fall 2025

Front

_____ is an example of a secondary reinforcer.

Back

A gift card

Answer explanation

According to your textbook, secondary reinforcers gain value through association with primary reinforcers, such as money or gift cards.

Front

Which example illustrates a positive correlation? Options: The more you exercise, the lower your weight., The less you smoke, the better your health., The less you study, the lower your grades., The more you binge watch TV, the less you read.

Back

The less you study, the lower your grades.

Answer explanation

According to your textbook, cognitive psychology studies how people process, store, and use information, which changes across the lifespan.

Front

According to the information processing model, Mattias is struggling with: storage., retrieval., encoding., rehearsal.

Back

retrieval.

Answer explanation

According to your textbook, retrieval is the process of pulling information from memory; Mattias could not retrieve what he had studied.

Front

What is Rayan demonstrating with alcohol? He has been drinking regularly and heavily for many months, and instead of seeking help, he just drinks more.

Back

addiction.

Answer explanation

According to your textbook, Bandura’s studies showed that people learn by observing others, demonstrated in his Bobo doll experiments.

Front

According to Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, a professional ballerina would MOST likely excel at _____ intelligence, while a world-renowned philosopher would MOST likely excel at _____ intelligence.

Back

bodily–kinesthetic; existential

Answer explanation

According to your textbook, bodily–kinesthetic intelligence applies to movement skills, while existential intelligence involves deep life questions.

Front

Dr. Matsushita is a cognitive psychologist. They would be MOST likely to study how the ability to _____ changes across the life span.

Back

process information

Answer explanation

According to your textbook, cognitive psychology studies how people process, store, and use information, which changes across the lifespan.

Front

Leopold often cannot understand what other people are saying and, although he can speak, his sentences often make little sense. Leopold most likely has _____ aphasia.

Back

Wernicke's

Answer explanation

According to your textbook, crystallized intelligence refers to accumulated knowledge, like answering trivia questions.

Front

Your mailbox functions in the same way as the _____ of the neuron.

Back

dendrites

Answer explanation

According to your textbook, semantic memory is knowledge of facts and rules, while procedural memory involves skills and actions.

Front

When you step on something painful, the command to move away is communicated to your muscles from your brain through:

Back

motor neurons.

Answer explanation

According to your textbook, reinforcement increases the likelihood of a behavior. The birds were rewarded with food before, so they associate Tanner with food.

Front

The focus of Dr. Pao's study on the impact of insufficient sleep on athletic performance is MOST likely on:

Back

sleep deprivation.

Answer explanation

According to your textbook, secondary reinforcers gain value through association with primary reinforcers, such as money or gift cards.