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SOCS2-Learning&Memory

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

__________ refers to the dynamic mechanisms associated with storing, retaining, and retrieving information about past experience.

a)

Memory

b)

Recall

c)

Recognition

d)

Encoding

2.

Complete the 3 Operations of Memory: Encoding > (a)   > Retrieval.

3.

One of the tasks used for measuring memory wherein a person produces a fact, a word, or other items from memory (ex. Fill-in-the-blanks & Essays).

a)

Memory

b)

Recall

c)

Recognition

d)

Encoding

4.

One of the tasks used for measuring memory wherein a person selects or otherwise identify an item being one that you learned previously (Multiple Choice & True and False).

a)

Memory

b)

Recall

c)

Recognition

d)

Encoding

5.

Complete the Three-Levels-Of-Processing-Framework: Physical > Phonological > ____________ .

a)

Semantic

b)

Encoding

c)

Episodic

d)

Attention

6.

____________ is a loss of retention, extinction of what has been learned, or the failure to be able to retrieve previously learned material.

a)

Forgetting

b)

Distraction

c)

Rehearsal

d)

Interference

7.

_____________ is the repeated recitation of an item.

a)

Recall

b)

Distraction

c)

Rehearsal

d)

Interference

8.

Identify the factors that may affect information storage/learning (Check all that applies).

a)

Encoding

b)

Attention

c)

Rehearsal

d)

Interference

e)

Massed Practice

9.

_______________ is the inability to recall events that happened when we were very young. Generally, we can remember little or nothing that has happened to us before the age of about 5 years.

a)

Infantile Amnesia

b)

Anterograde Amnesia

c)

Selective Amnesia

d)

Retrograde Amnesia

10.

Identify the two kinds of explicit memory: Semantic memory and _________________ .

a)

Episodic memory

b)

Long-term memory

c)

Short-term memory

d)

Sensory memory

11.

__________________ is a change in behavior as a result of experience or practice.

a)

Learning

b)

Memory

c)

Perceiving

d)

Deciding

12.

________________ is a learning process that occurs through the association between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus.

a)

Classical Conditioning

b)

Operant Conditioning

c)

Behaviorism

d)

Reinforcement

13.

A ______________ box, also known as an operant conditioning chamber, is an enclosed apparatus that contains a bar or key that an animal can press or manipulate in order to obtain food or water as a type of reinforcement.

a)

Skinner

b)

Pavlov

c)

Watson

d)

Little Albert

14.

Complete the Learning Process: Perceiving > Deciding > (a)   > Feedback.

15.

A learning process in which the likelihood of a specific behavior is increased or decreased through positive or negative reinforcement each time the behavior is exhibited so that the subject comes to associate the pleasure or displeasure of the reinforcement with the behavior.

a)

Classical Conditioning

b)

Operant Conditioning

c)

Behaviorism

d)

Reinforcement

16.

One of the aspects of Operant Conditioning that strengthens a behavior by providing a consequence an individual finds rewarding.

a)

Positive Reinforcement

b)

Positive Punishment

c)

Negative Punishment

d)

Negative Reinforcement

17.

Complete the sentence: Learning is not (a)   human. All living things learn.

18.

________________ is a theory of animal and human learning that only focuses on objectively observable behaviors and discounts mental activities.

a)

Neuro-cognitive

b)

Behaviorism

c)

Psychodynamic

d)

Humanistic

19.

One of the aspects of Operant Conditioning: The removal of an unpleasant reinforcement can also strengthen behavior. This is known as negative reinforcement because it is the removal of an adverse stimulus that is ‘rewarding’ to the animal or person.

a)

Positive Reinforcement

b)

Positive Punishment

c)

Negative Punishment

d)

Negative Reinforcement

20.

One of the aspects of Classical Conditioning: Is a previously neutral stimulus that, after being associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a condition response.

a)

Conditioned Stimulus

b)

Neutral Stimulus

c)

Unconditioned Response

d)

Unconditioned Stimulus