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WorksheetsExam 2 Review
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 51mins
Once visual information reaches the retina, it is carried to the brain via the __________.
corpus callosum
optic nerve
rods
cones
These encompass the way sensory information is interpreted and consciously experienced.
Sensations
Perceptions
Emotions
Memories
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.
role schema
friend
teacher
event schema
Rods and cones are photoreceptor cells. Rods help us see in _____, while cones are related to _____.
bright light; grayscale vision
dim light; color vision
dim light; grayscale vision
color; night vision
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) .
What kind of reinforcement schedule is this? Every 3 times the ferret nose boops your hand, they are given a treat.
Fixed ratio
Variable ratio
Fixed interval
Variable interval
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?
Semantic Encoding
Visual Encoding
Acoustic Encoding
None of These
The stars on my powerpoint, the monkey business illusion, and the tik tok of the milk turning to water were all examples of what?
Inattentional Blindness
Absentmindedness
Perceptual Inattention
Your Attempts to Keep Us Entertained...Clearly.
Which memory technique would suit the information the best: 10052021
Chunking
Elaborative Rehearsal
Mnemonic Device
Rehearsal
Memories we consciously try to remember, recall, and report.
Proactive
Explicit
Retroactive
Implicit
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?
Saying their friend's name
Flinching
Being sprayed with silly string
Unrealistically Controlled Situation
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?
Being sprayed with silly string
Flinching
Controlled Reaction
Saying their friend's name
Pavlov is known for his work with the style of associative learning known as ______ _______ (2 words).
(a)
A grouping of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories
Definition
Language
Communication
Concept
What kind of reinforcement schedule is this? A cat is periodically given cat nip when their owner remembers to do so.
Fixed ratio
Variable ratio
Fixed interval
Variable interval
Genie’s story of extreme neglect and resilience demonstrates the existence of a __________ for language development.
biological component
fixed interval
critical period
positive reinforcement
Which memory technique would suit the information the best: The concept of suggestibility
Chunking
Elaborative Rehearsal
Mnemonic Device
Rehearsal
Someone wanting to use the most effective tool for increasing the likelihood of a behavior reoccurring should utilize...
positive reinforcement
positive punishment
negative reinforcement
negative punishment
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 ______.
sensory adaptation; habituation
inattentional blindness; vicarious reinforcement
habituation; sensory adaptation
inattentional blindness; active ignoring
(a) is well known for his contributions to operant conditioning.
What kind of reinforcement schedule is this? Sometimes the dog whines once, at others 5 times, and sometimes 10 times before being let outside.
Fixed ratio
Variable ratio
Fixed interval
Variable interval
The ___________ is a decision bias which might lead someone to believe an event they just experienced was predictable.
confirmation bias
anchoring bias
availability heuristic
hindsight bias
A return of a previously extinguished conditioned response following a rest period.
Extinction
Acquisition
Observational learning
Spontaneous recovery
Figure-ground relationships, the
law of continuity, and the principle of closure are aspects of pattern perception described by ______ psychologists.
Gestalt
Learning
Cognitive
Evolutionary
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.
Fixed ratio
Variable ratio
Fixed interval
Variable interval
In the U.S., telephone numbers follow the _____ ___ ______ (3 words) for working memory since they have 7 numbers ±2.
(a)
What kind of reinforcement schedule is this? You receive your favorite dessert for your birthday.
Fixed ratio
Variable ratio
Fixed interval
Variable interval
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).
True
False
Turtle
Fish
Which of the following can impact our perceptions?
Beliefs and values
Prejudices and Expectations
Attention and Life Experiences
All of the these
Memory forms over 3 parts: encoding, (a) , and retrieval.
Albert Bandura is best known for his Bobo Doll experiment, a study of ____________ focused on learning new behaviors by observing others.
social psychology and obedience
classical conditioning
observational learning (modeling/social learning)
operant conditioning
Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve tells us that we will forget _____ of what we have learning after 24 hours after learning something.
25%
70%
40%
95%
______ ______ is to academic knowledge as ______ ______ is to abstract thought.
crystallized intelligence; general intelligence
fluid intelligence: crystallized intelligence
crystallized intelligence; fluid intelligence
general intelligence; crystallized intelligence
Which memory technique would suit the information the best: The notes on a musical staff
Chunking
Elaborative Rehearsal
Mnemonic Device
Rehearsal
Higher (a) are associated with louder sounds.
Rewarding successive approximations of a target behavior is referred to as _____ and is a principle of operant conditioning.
training
conditioning
teaching
shaping
If you have ever had trouble remembering to write a new year in January, you are experiencing ...
proactive interference
retroactive interference
anterograde amnesia
retrograde amnesia
The famous case of H.M. demonstrated __________, a condition in which a person can remember previously encoded memories but cannot encode new ones.
proactive interference
retroactive interference
anterograde amnesia
retrograde amnesia
What kind of reinforcement schedule is this? Students are unsure what day a drill will happen.
Fixed ratio
Variable ratio
Fixed interval
Variable interval
Which memory technique would suit the information the best: Spelling supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Chunking
Elaborative Rehearsal
Mnemonic Device
Rehearsal
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) .
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.
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.
gustatory
olfactory
vestibular
thermoceptor
The creation of procedural, implicit memories, motor learning, and classical conditioning is most closely associated with the ...
Broca's Area
optic nerve
amygdala
cerebellum
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 ...
Dyslexia
Dysgraphia
Dyscalculia
None of these
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)
