Unit 2 Practice Quizizz!

1. Which of the following is primacy effect ?

• The first letter and the last letter of the alphabet are easily memorized

• 1. Ida had learned the first few books of a series quite easily

• 1. Eli remembers the events at the end of the day

• 1. Wallace tends to forget the middle of movies

Answer explanation

Primacy Effect: You are most likely to remember items at the beginning of a list

According to the results of the Bandura Bobo Doll experiment, kids who saw adults beat the doll would….

• 1. Play nicely with the doll

• 1. Do nothing

• 1. Beat up the doll

• 1. There were no clear results in this experiment

Answer explanation

Observational learning says that the kids will copy whatever they see

When training a dog to do tricks, research shows that it is best to award your dog after a random number of tricks. What kinds of schedule of reinforcement would this be?

• 1. Fixed ratio

• 1. Variable ratio

• 1. Fixed interval

• 1. Variable interval

Answer explanation

1. award after random # of tricks

A researcher decided to test operant conditioning using different schedules of reinforcement. In his first experiment, he awarded a pigeon every three times it hit a button. This was a ____. In his second experiment, he awarded a pigeon at random periods of time. This was a ____.

• 1. Fixed ratio; variable interval

• 1. Fixed interval; variable ratio

• 1. Variable ratio; fixed interval

• 1. Variable interval; fixed ratio

Answer explanation

Similar explanation as before: In the first trial he awarded the pigeon after x amount of responses (fixed ratio). In the second trial, he awarded the pigeon at random times (variable interval)

True or False: A radiologist with a higher d’ value is more likely to get more hits.

• 1. True 

• False

Answer explanation

The d’ value refers to sensitivity. Someone with high sensitivity (more likely to say “yes”) is more likely to get a hit (say “yes” correctly)

Sarah participated in a study that was testing the signal detection theory. She was told to say yes if she heard a bell ring and no if she heard nothing. She said yes in most rounds. She had low rates of misses and high rates of false alarms. Sharah as a _____ threshold

• High

• Low

• Medium

Answer explanation

Think of threshold (c) as the amount of evidence require prior to saying yes. If you have a low threshold, you need only a small amount before you say yes

According to the opponent process theory, the color pair to blue is ….

• Red

• Yellow

• Green

• White

Answer explanation

Opponent Process theory:

Black goes with white

Red goes with green

Blue goes with yellow

In the image, you are more likely to form rows with the black & White dots. This is an example of gestalt’s principle of…

• Proximity

• Closure

• Similarity

• 1. Good Continuation

Answer explanation

Similarity: Things that are alike tend to be grouped together

James was attacked by a dog when he was little, so for a long time he was afraid of dogs. He now, however, has no fear of dogs. Yesterday, a dog started barking aggressively at him as he walked by. James now feels fear again around dogs. This is an example of…

• 1. Generalization

• 1. Spontaneous recovery

• Extinction

• Acquisition

Answer explanation

Spontaneous recovery: after being extinguished, the conditioning returns without any new pairing of the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus

Jannet’s grandma taught her how to make her homemade bread. Jannet is able to remember how to make it a few weeks after she was taught. When she is rehearsing the steps of the recipe, this would be an example of…

• Episodic memory

• 1. Semantic Memory

• 1. Explicit Memory

• 1. Procedural Memory

Answer explanation

Procedural Memory - for how to do something