PSY 101 Exam 2 Review

What do psychologists call a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience?

• Conditioning

• Instincts

• Learning

• Reflexes

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

The automatic return of a previously classically conditioned, now extinguished, behavior is known as:

• Spontaneous recovery

• Stimulus discrimination

• Higher-order conditioning

• Continuous reinforcement

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 at the end of every week. 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

To remember his lines for the play, Guy repeats his lines over and over again. This process is called ________.

• declarative memory

• hyperthymesia

• rehearsal

• relearning