PSY 101 Exam 2 Review

Which of the following is an example of a reflex?

• Deciding that you want to be a parent

• Jumping for joy when your favorite team wins a championship

• Addressing your elders as “sir” or “ma’am” because that is how you were raised

• The pupil of your eye contracting in the presence of bright light

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

In classical conditioning, if the unconditioned stimulus is “loud noise” and the neutral stimulus is “red light”, what would the conditioned stimulus be?

• High tone

• Red light

• Feeling fear

• Loud noise

You begin to salivate when you smell your favorite cake in the oven, but not when you smell the gross scent of a dirty diaper. This is an example of ________.

• Operant conditioning

• Stimulus discrimination

• Stimulus generalization

• Higher-order conditioning

Dave’s boss told him that he doesn’t have to attend the company picnic (which everybody dislikes) to make it more likely that Dave meets his sales quota this month. Dave’s boss is using ________.

• Negative punishment

• Negative reinforcement

• Positive punishment

• Positive reinforcement

Gus receives a paycheck after he has worked 20 hours. Which reinforcement schedule is this?

• Fixed interval

• Fixed ratio

• Variable interval

• Continuous

What is the main idea of social learning theory?

• Behavior is motivated by the consequences we receive for the behavior: reinforcements and punishments.

• Fear is a conditioned response.

• Learning can occur when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

• One can learn new behaviors by observing others.

What is the set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time?

• automatic processing

• effortful processing

• memory

• sensory encoding

When you take a multiple-choice test, you are relying on ________, because you are comparing the information in front of you to that which is already stored in your long-term memory.

• Transience

• recognition

• recall

• the Stroop effect

Which part of the brain is most involved in creating implicit memories?

• Amygdala

• cerebellum

• hippocampus

• primary cortex

Dozens of people witness a purse snatching. One of the eyewitnesses loudly yells “the man with the blue shirt did it.” Later, when questioned by police, several other eyewitnesses remember the purse snatcher wearing a blue shirt, even though the purse snatcher was a woman in flowered dress. This is an example of ________, or the effects of misinformation from external sources that leads to the creation of false memories.

• Transience

• suggestibility

• recognition

• misattribution