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PSYCHQUIZ

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name the process by which we get information into our brain 

a)

Storage

b)

Recall

c)

Retention

d)

Encoding

2.

Learning by trial and error is called

a)

Classical conditioning

b)

Operant conditioning

c)

Positive reinforcement

d)

Stimulus

3.

_______ records momentary images or the echo of a sound.

a)

Sensory memory

b)

Working memory

c)

Long-term memory

d)

Short-term memory

4.

Habituation involves learning about a

a)

Multiple stimuli

b)

Single response

c)

Single stimulus

d)

Multiple response

5.

Which of the following psychologists is famous for research on false memories?

a)

George A Miller

b)

Elizabeth Loftus

c)

Noam Chomsky

d)

Hermann Ebbinghaus

6.

In the conditiion when UCS is subsequently omitted, what will the CR experience?

a)

Reinforcement

b)

Extinction

c)

Learning

d)

Association

7.

Remembering the beginning contents of a long list is termed the

a)

Visual effect

b)

Naming effect

c)

Primary effect

d)

Recency effect

8.

After extinction training, which of these reflects the preservation of the original CS-UCS association?

a)

Reinforcement

b)

Spontaneous recovery

c)

Generalization

d)

Discrimination

9.

Implicit memory is to the __, as explicit memory is to the __

a)

hippocampus/cerebellum

b)

cerebellum/hippocampus

c)

corpus callosum/hippocampus

d)

hippocampus/corpus callosum

10.

What is considered an unconditioned response in Pavlov's experiment?

a)

Meat powder

b)

Sleeping

c)

Food

d)

Salivation

11.

This person studied the effects of misinformation and false memories

a)

Pavlov

b)

Bandura

c)

Ebbinghaus

d)

Loftus

12.

Punishment is the ____ of reinforcement

a)

Opposite

b)

Principle

c)

Basis

d)

Equivalent

13.

A mnemonic that consists of associating items you want to remember with physical locations

a)

Peg-words

b)

Acronym

c)

Method of Loci

d)

Self reference effect

14.

John loves to fish. He puts his line in the water and leaves it there until he feels a tug. On what reinforcement schedule is he rewarded?

a)

continuous reinforcement

b)

Variable interval

c)

Fixed ratio

d)

Variable ratio

15.

A person in a group has diminished recall for the words of others who spoke immediately before that person.

a)

Explicit memory

b)

Implicit memory

c)

Next-in-line effect

d)

Chunking

16.

Which of the following best reflects negative reinforcement?

a)

Teresa is scolded when she runs through the house yelling.

b)

Greg changes his math class so he doesn't have to see his old girlfriend

c)

Aditya is raised for having the best essay in class.

d)

Alex takes the wrong medicine and gets violently ill afterward.

17.

Which of the following is a memory aid?

a)

Mnemonic

b)

Chunking

c)

Explicit memory

d)

Implicit memory

18.

Which of the following is NOT learned through operant conditioning?

a)

a rat learning to press a bar to get food

b)

fish swimming to the top of the tank when a light goes on

c)

studying hard for good grades

d)

dogs jumping over a hurdle to avoid an electric shock

19.

When choices are given, it is much easier to identify genuine ones.  A multiple choice test is a good example

a)

Recall

b)

Deja vu

c)

Relean

d)

Recognition

20.

Who created the Operant Conditioning Chamber?

a)

B F Skinner

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

John Garcia

d)

Edward Tolman