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Exam 2 Review

Total questions: 46

Worksheet time: 51mins

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Class
Date
1.

Once visual information reaches the retina, it is carried to the brain via the __________.

a)

corpus callosum

b)

optic nerve

c)

rods

d)

cones

2.

These encompass the way sensory information is interpreted and consciously experienced.

a)

Sensations

b)

Perceptions

c)

Emotions

d)

Memories

3.

Alan walks into his new classroom. He immediately assumes he needs to find his seat and get out a sheet of paper because his _________ suggests that we behave this way.

a)

role schema

b)

friend

c)

teacher

d)

event schema

4.

Rods and cones are photoreceptor cells. Rods help us see in _____, while cones are related to _____.

a)

bright light; grayscale vision

b)

dim light; color vision

c)

dim light; grayscale vision

d)

color; night vision

5.

Alfred Binet was asked to create an intelligence test of sorts for school kids in France. The average score of his test was 100 with a standard deviation of (a)   .

6.

What kind of reinforcement schedule is this? Every 3 times the ferret nose boops your hand, they are given a treat.

a)

Fixed ratio

b)

Variable ratio

c)

Fixed interval

d)

Variable interval

7.

Luna finds it difficult to learn the states, until she hears the Fifty Nifty song. Then she can easily remember them. What is this an example of?

a)

Semantic Encoding

b)

Visual Encoding

c)

Acoustic Encoding

d)

None of These

8.

The stars on my powerpoint, the monkey business illusion, and the tik tok of the milk turning to water were all examples of what?

a)

Inattentional Blindness

b)

Absentmindedness

c)

Perceptual Inattention

d)

Your Attempts to Keep Us Entertained...Clearly.

9.

Which memory technique would suit the information the best: 10052021

a)

Chunking

b)

Elaborative Rehearsal

c)

Mnemonic Device

d)

Rehearsal

10.

Memories we consciously try to remember, recall, and report.

a)

Proactive

b)

Explicit

c)

Retroactive

d)

Implicit

11.

Scion wants to play a prank on their friend using classical conditioning. To start, they call their friend's name, and then immediately spray them with silly string. When sprayed with silly string, their friend's normal reaction is to flinch away. They do this 5 more times--pairing their friend's name with being sprayed with silly string. Until finally, Scion call's their friend's name, and they flinch even though NO SILLY STRING WAS SPRAYED. In this scenario, what is the UCS?

a)

Saying their friend's name

b)

Flinching

c)

Being sprayed with silly string

d)

Unrealistically Controlled Situation

12.

Scion wants to play a prank on their friend using classical conditioning. To start, they call their friend's name, and then immediately spray them with silly string. When sprayed with silly string, their friend's normal reaction is to flinch away. They do this 5 more times--pairing their friend's name with being sprayed with silly string. Until finally, Scion call's their friend's name, and they flinch even though NO SILLY STRING WAS SPRAYED. In this scenario, what is the CR?

a)

Being sprayed with silly string

b)

Flinching

c)

Controlled Reaction

d)

Saying their friend's name

13.

Pavlov is known for his work with the style of associative learning known as ______ _______ (2 words).

(a)  

14.

A grouping of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories

a)

Definition

b)

Language

c)

Communication

d)

Concept

15.

What kind of reinforcement schedule is this? A cat is periodically given cat nip when their owner remembers to do so.

a)

Fixed ratio

b)

Variable ratio

c)

Fixed interval

d)

Variable interval

16.

Genie’s story of extreme neglect and resilience demonstrates the existence of a __________ for language development.

a)

biological component

b)

fixed interval

c)

critical period

d)

positive reinforcement

17.

Which memory technique would suit the information the best: The concept of suggestibility

a)

Chunking

b)

Elaborative Rehearsal

c)

Mnemonic Device

d)

Rehearsal

18.

Someone wanting to use the most effective tool for increasing the likelihood of a behavior reoccurring should utilize...

a)

positive reinforcement

b)

positive punishment

c)

negative reinforcement

d)

negative punishment

19.

We discussed the idea of what happens to most people when a stimulus is repeated in both the perception and learning chapters. Our failure to perceive these repetitions is referred to as ______ while our learned behavior of ignoring the stimulus is referred to as ______.

a)

sensory adaptation; habituation

b)

inattentional blindness; vicarious reinforcement

c)

habituation; sensory adaptation

d)

inattentional blindness; active ignoring

20.

(a)   is well known for his contributions to operant conditioning.

21.

What kind of reinforcement schedule is this? Sometimes the dog whines once, at others 5 times, and sometimes 10 times before being let outside.

a)

Fixed ratio

b)

Variable ratio

c)

Fixed interval

d)

Variable interval

22.

The ___________ is a decision bias which might lead someone to believe an event they just experienced was predictable.

a)

confirmation bias

b)

anchoring bias

c)

availability heuristic

d)

hindsight bias

23.

A return of a previously extinguished conditioned response following a rest period.

a)

Extinction

b)

Acquisition

c)

Observational learning

d)

Spontaneous recovery

24.

Figure-ground relationships, the

law of continuity, and the principle of closure are aspects of pattern perception described by ______ psychologists.

a)

Gestalt

b)

Learning

c)

Cognitive

d)

Evolutionary

25.

What kind of reinforcement schedule is this? When going fishing, you might never catch a fish after casting, could cast 3 times before catching a fish, or cast 10 times before anything bites.

a)

Fixed ratio

b)

Variable ratio

c)

Fixed interval

d)

Variable interval

26.

In the U.S., telephone numbers follow the _____ ___ ______ (3 words) for working memory since they have 7 numbers ±2.

(a)  

27.

What kind of reinforcement schedule is this? You receive your favorite dessert for your birthday.

a)

Fixed ratio

b)

Variable ratio

c)

Fixed interval

d)

Variable interval

28.

TRUE OR FALSE: There are 3 versions of the Wechsler intelligence tests: the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS).

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Turtle

d)

Fish

29.

Which of the following can impact our perceptions?

a)

Beliefs and values

b)

Prejudices and Expectations

c)

Attention and Life Experiences

d)

All of the these

30.

Memory forms over 3 parts: encoding, (a)   , and retrieval.

31.

Albert Bandura is best known for his Bobo Doll experiment, a study of ____________ focused on learning new behaviors by observing others.

a)

social psychology and obedience

b)

classical conditioning

c)

observational learning (modeling/social learning)

d)

operant conditioning

32.

Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve tells us that we will forget _____ of what we have learning after 24 hours after learning something.

a)

25%

b)

70%

c)

40%

d)

95%

33.

______ ______ is to academic knowledge as ______ ______ is to abstract thought.

a)

crystallized intelligence; general intelligence

b)

fluid intelligence: crystallized intelligence

c)

crystallized intelligence; fluid intelligence

d)

general intelligence; crystallized intelligence

34.

Which memory technique would suit the information the best: The notes on a musical staff

a)

Chunking

b)

Elaborative Rehearsal

c)

Mnemonic Device

d)

Rehearsal

35.

Higher (a)   are associated with louder sounds.

36.

Rewarding successive approximations of a target behavior is referred to as _____ and is a principle of operant conditioning.

a)

training

b)

conditioning

c)

teaching

d)

shaping

37.

If you have ever had trouble remembering to write a new year in January, you are experiencing ...

a)

proactive interference

b)

retroactive interference

c)

anterograde amnesia

d)

retrograde amnesia

38.

The famous case of H.M. demonstrated __________, a condition in which a person can remember previously encoded memories but cannot encode new ones.

a)

proactive interference

b)

retroactive interference

c)

anterograde amnesia

d)

retrograde amnesia

39.

What kind of reinforcement schedule is this? Students are unsure what day a drill will happen.

a)

Fixed ratio

b)

Variable ratio

c)

Fixed interval

d)

Variable interval

40.

Which memory technique would suit the information the best: Spelling supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

a)

Chunking

b)

Elaborative Rehearsal

c)

Mnemonic Device

d)

Rehearsal

41.

Molly attempts to use operant conditioning to get her puppy to greet her when she enters the house. She gives the puppy a treat every time she is greeted (aka uses positive reinforcement) to increase the likelihood of this behavior occurring. The puppy learns this behavior, thus experiencing (a)   .

42.

Molly soon realizes how irritating it is for the puppy to run up to her every time she enters the house, and decides to work towards the (a)   of the behavior.

43.

Rey is training to become a professional dancer, and they are working to improve their turns. The ______sense helps keep them balanced so they have less chance of falling over.

a)

gustatory

b)

olfactory

c)

vestibular

d)

thermoceptor

44.

The creation of procedural, implicit memories, motor learning, and classical conditioning is most closely associated with the ...

a)

Broca's Area

b)

optic nerve

c)

amygdala

d)

cerebellum

45.

Rudy struggles to understand basic arithmetic concepts, confuses mathematical symbols like “+” and “=”, and gets very frustrated and upset at the thought of doing math homework. Rudy has a normal level of cognitive functioning in other areas, and reads and writes with ease. Rudy’s parents may want to have him evaluated to see if he suffers from ...

a)

Dyslexia

b)

Dysgraphia

c)

Dyscalculia

d)

None of these

46.

Our tests are worth 75 points, they will be done on a paper packet, and the professor will have them graded within _____ ______ (2 words).

(a)