PSY150-Exam 3 Review

Each time your brother does his chores, your mother gives him money. Which type of reinforcement is he receiving?

• fixed ratio

• fixed interval

• intermittent

• continuous

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is the ability to take in, solidify, store, and then use information.

• memory

• schema

• amnesia

• retrieval

In the context of short-term memory, the process of breaking down a list of items to be remembered into a smaller set of meaningful units of known as

• rehearsing

• blocking

• chunking

• priming

Deidre has a list of medicines she needs to buy from the drugstore. She quickly goes through the list and, believing she has memorized it, leaves the list behind when she steps out of her home. When she reaches the drugstore, however, she can only recall the names of the first few and the last few medicines on the list. Deidre's inability to recall the names of the medicines in the middle of the list is an example of

• reconsolidation

• amnesia

• serial position effect

• phenomenon of suggestibility

Primacy effect is to ____ as recency effect is to ______.

• first; last

• beginning; end

• implicit; explicit

• semantic; episodic

_______ memory is the form of memory that recalls the experiences one has had.

• echoic

• semantic

• episodic

• implicit

As part of his theory of how neural connections form and how synaptic connections change, Donald Hebb suggested that

• the more connected neurons fire, the weaker their bonds become.

• neurons can retain their functions over long periods even when they are not regularly used.

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  neurons that fire together, wire together.

• when the synapse of one neuron repeatedly fires and excites another neuron, there is a temporary change in the receiving neuron.

An argument can be made that habituation is not a form of learning, because

• it results in permanent changes in behavior.

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  it involves unconditioned responses to new stimuli.

• it involves involuntary responses that develop over time.

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  it can disappear immediately with slight changes in the stimulus.

What are the three processes of memory?

• sensory, retrieval, consolidation

• encoding, storage, retrieval

• implicit, explicit, episodic

• semantic, sensory, reconsolidation

When Anna was a child, a dog barked at her whenever she walked past him, and even bit her once. As an adult, whenever she walks past a dog, her palms start to sweat and her heart races. Anna's behavior an example of

• habituation

• unconditioned response

• operant conditioning

• reinforcement