Test 3

Darell was dancing with his new girlfriend at an Elvis tribute. When the band started playing. "Can't Help Falling in Love." His girlfriend gave him a long, passionate kiss, which Darell found very enjoyable. Now Darrel finds that every time he hears that song on the radio, he becomes mildy excited. In this example, the long passionate kiss is...

• An unconditioned response

• a conditioned response

• a conditioned stimulus

• an unconditioned stimulus

With rehearsal, information in short-term memory can be maintained for some time. Without rehearsal, the duration of short-term memory is..

• about 1 sec

• about 5 sec

• about 20 sec

• about 1 min

Shaquille is a professional basketball player. He never knows for sure which of his shots will result in a basket, but the more shots he takes, the more baskets he makes. In this example, Shaquille's shooting is being reinforced on ..

• a variable-ration schedule

• a variable-interval schedule

• a fixed-interval schedule

• a fixed-ratio schedule

Which memory system is also referred to as "working memory"?

• short term memory

• sensory memory

• long term memory

• all of these collectively

When studying for her pyschology exam, Amy would read each word from the list of key terms at the end of the chapter, read the definition of the term, and then think of an example that illustrated each term. Amy was using the process of (blank) to hopefully enhance her memory of the terms.

• expanded attention

• rehearsal

• elaboration

• retrieval

Focusing on awareness on a narrow range of stimuli involves..

• rehearsal

• elaboration

• attention

• encoding

Which stage, according to the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory, is the first stage of the memory processing?

• long term memory

• sensory memory

• medium-term memory

• short term memory

When shown a santa claus beard, Little Albert showed a fear response, which was evidence of...

• Stimulus preparedness

• Stimulus generalization

• stimulus discrimination

• stimulus exctinction

A three-year old boy observes his father yelling at his mother every time she says something the father doesn't like. Based on principles of observational learning, whenever the mother says something to the boy that he does not like in the future, the boy is MOST likely to do which of the following?

• yell at his mother

• yell at his sister

• go and tell his father what the mother said

• yell at his father

Pseudoforgetting is viewed as a function of..

• insufficient retrieval cues

• brain damage

• interference effects

• lack of attention