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WorksheetsCh. 10. 1-2
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 25mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Fading away of memory
a)
Amnesia
b)
Decay
c)
Interference
d)
Repression
2.
Which memory task involves identifying objects encountered before?
a)
Recognition
b)
Recall
c)
Relearning
d)
Repression
3.
After looking up a phone number, Jim calls it, then forgets. The number was stored in his
a)
Short-Term Memory
b)
Long Term Memory
c)
Visual Memory
d)
Episodic Memory
4.
Which type of memory has essentially unlimited storage capacity?
a)
episodic memory
b)
short term memory
c)
long term memory
d)
state-dependent memory
5.
What are the three types of storage that our brain uses?
a)
sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory
b)
vivid memory, short-term memory, long-term memory
c)
compact memory, short-term memory, long-term memory
d)
none of these
6.
Define short-term memory
a)
holds so many chunks of information before it has to be stored more permanently or forgotten
b)
the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory
c)
a vivid clear memory
d)
organizing infornation into meaningful units
7.
A lion in a circus learns to stand up on a chair and jump through a hoop to receive a food treat.
a)
classical
b)
operant
c)
observational
d)
none of the above
8.
Every time someone flushes a toilet in the apartment building, the shower becomes very hot and causes the person to jump back. Over time, the person begins to jump back automatically after hearing the flush, before the water temperature changes.
a)
Classical
b)
Operant
c)
observational
9.
Ivan Pavlov has been credited with the initial discovery of
a)
operant conditioning.
b)
reinforcement
c)
classical conditioning.
d)
vicarious conditioning.
10.
A student does a good job on math problems for homework, and the teacher awards a sticker. This demonstrates the use of
a)
conditioning
b)
Reinforcement
c)
Spontaneous recovery
d)
stimulus
11.
Parents say, “I’m taking away your phone because you failed Chemistry.” Parents are using
a)
positive punishment
b)
negative punishment
c)
positive reinforcement
d)
classical conditioning
12.
Learning is defined as
a)
any behavior emitted by an organism without being elicited
b)
A changed in the behavior of the organism
c)
A relatively permanent change in the behavior of an organism due to experience
d)
Behavior based on operant rather than respondent conditioning
13.
What is punishment?
a)
Anything that the subject will work to avoid
b)
Any unpleasant stimulus
c)
Anything that the subject dislikes
d)
Anything that decreases the frequency of a behavior
14.
Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement?
a)
Jerking a dog's collar when it pulls ahead
b)
Removing collar pressure on a dog's neck when it walks next to you
c)
Giving a dog a treat when it walks next to you
d)
Praising a dog for walking next to you
15.
Which of the following is NOT a way language interacts with culture?
a)
Different words for waterways in south Louisiana
b)
How the traditional Hobi Indians did not have a past or future tense
c)
How the eskimos have different words for snow
d)
How we pronounce things differently than other parts of the country
16.
What is the active system which receives, stores, organizes, alters, and recalls information?
a)
Memory
b)
Reasoning
c)
Emotion
d)
Deduction
17.
Stop and look around the room. Your ears are taking in an enormous amount of sound information that you will likely forget before you finish answering this question.
What type of memory are you using?
What type of memory are you using?
a)
Semantic
b)
Episodic
c)
Sensory
d)
Procedural
18.
Working memory is also known as
a)
long term memory
b)
short term memory
c)
sensory memory
d)
forgotten memory
19.
What is NOT an example of a skill type of learning?
a)
Walking
b)
Using chopsticks
c)
Riding a bike
d)
Manners
20.
What is an example of information in the form of learning?
a)
History
b)
Walking
c)
Manners
d)
Riding a bike
21.
What is Not an example of social behavior in terms of learning?
a)
Manners
b)
Acting in church
c)
Quiet in the library
d)
History of the library
22.
The connection between the stimulus and a response is called what?
a)
Habits
b)
Bond
c)
Stimulus
d)
Response
23.
This strengthens bonds by repetition to become behavior patterns
a)
Bonds
b)
Habits
c)
Responses
d)
Stimuli
24.
When people try different solutions until they find one that works, it is called what?
a)
Trial and Error
b)
Stimulus-response
c)
Respondent behavior
d)
Operant behavior
25.
What are the two types of behaviors that B.F. Skinner identified?
a)
Respondent and operant behavior
b)
Stimulus and response behavior
c)
Trial and Error
d)
Habits and bonds
26.
This behavior causes an involuntary response in the subject
a)
Respondent
b)
Operant
c)
Skill
d)
Information
27.
A person decides which behavior will gain the desired reward; considered an active behavior
a)
Respondent
b)
Operant
c)
Bond
d)
Mechanical
28.
Tend to increase the chances that a particular behavior will be repeated
a)
Reward
b)
Punishment
c)
Reinforcement
d)
Signals
29.
Tend to extinguish operant behaviors
a)
Reward
b)
Punishment
c)
Reinforcement
d)
Signal
30.
Clues that indicate how one should act or respond
a)
Reward
b)
Punishment
c)
Reinforcement
d)
Signal
31.
A schedule of reinforcement in which rewards come at unpredictable times
a)
Variable-interval experiment
b)
Stimulus-response experiment
c)
Classical experiment
d)
Reward and punishment
32.
A number of high-level mental activities
a)
Concentration
b)
Competition
c)
Cognition
d)
Thinking
33.
One of the factors that contributes to learning when you tend to relate what you see and hear
a)
The self
b)
Past experience
c)
Intelligence
d)
Motivation
34.
True or False: Intelligence is measured as single quantity
a)
True
b)
False
35.
What is the factor of learning that makes you want to learn?
a)
Self
b)
Intelligence
c)
Emotions
d)
Motivation
36.
When enthusiasm for a subject can make you want to learn more
a)
Intelligence
b)
Emotions
c)
Past experiences
d)
Feedback
37.
A learning factor that helps when you receive help from a more experienced person
a)
Novelty
b)
Past experiences
c)
Cumulative learning
d)
Guidance
38.
This learning factor uses videos, debates, and other fun activities is called what?
a)
Cumulative learning
b)
Novelty
c)
Emotions
d)
Intelligence
39.
What learning facto is used when you receive the test results quickly?
a)
Novelty
b)
Feedback
c)
Intelligence
d)
Cumulative learning
40.
Where did researchers determine that memories are stored?
a)
Frontal lobe
b)
Cerebral cortex
c)
Pariental lobe
d)
Right hemisphere
41.
Who was the psychologist who removed bits of pieces of rat's brains?
a)
B.F. Skinner
b)
Karl Lashley
c)
E.C. Tolman
d)
Penfield
42.
Who was the psychologist that did experiments to prove the transfer of RNA memories?
a)
B.F. Skinner
b)
E.C. Tolman
c)
Penfield
d)
James McConnel
43.
Responding to a stimulus by retrieving one or more of the memories that are stored
a)
Recollection
b)
Remember
c)
Forgetting
d)
Recognition
44.
Process of using word cues, stimuli, or reminders to remember something
a)
Recollection
b)
Remember
c)
Recognition
d)
Forgetting
45.
Use of a stimuli to retrieve a particular memory
a)
Recollection
b)
Remember
c)
Recognition
d)
Forgetting
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