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Psych Unit 3 Review

Total questions: 63

Worksheet time: 1hrs 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Short term memory is

a)
limited in capacity
b)
unlimited in capacity
c)
long-lasting
d)
not under conscious control
e)
resistant to decay
2.
A sudden inability to remember how to tie a certain kind of knot indicates a deficit in which kind of memory?
a)
Declarative
b)
Semantic
c)
Iconic
d)
Episodic
e)
Procedural
3.
When Sophie reads her history assignments, she goes over them very carefully and tries to memorize each fact. Emma, on the other hand, studies by trying to relate the new information to things she has experienced, been told about by others, or seen in movies and on television. Emma’s performance on history tests will probably be better than Sophie’s due to differences in
a)
retrograde amnesia
b)
selective attention
c)
levels of processing
d)
source monitoring
e)
clustering
4.
Research on stereotype threat indicates that students might not do as well as they can on a test if
a)
they are informed that people of their ethnicity, age, or gender usually do not perform well on the tests
b)
the group taking the test is not ethnically diverse
c)
they are forced t take a test that is know to have a low retest reliability
d)
other students perceive them to be a minority ethnic group
e)
the test does not have standardized administration or scoring procedures
5.

Your dog has learned to "dance" at your command for "dance" and then getting a treat. If your dog stops getting a treat for "dancing", what will happen?

a)

generalization

b)

extinction

c)

spontaneous recovery

6.
Which of the following is an unconditioned response?
a)
clapping after a thrilling concert performance
b)
jumping rope
c)
running through a maze to get a food reward
d)
sweating in hot weather
7.

Eve is able to remember her Social Security number by breaking it into three parts: three numbers/two numbers/four numbers. Eve is using the process of:

a)

chunking

b)

selective attention

c)

retrieval

d)

maintenance rehearsal

8.

In _________, new long-term declarative memories cannot be formed at all.

a)

retrograde amnesia

b)

memory decay

c)

anterograde amnesia

d)

memory trace

9.

People’s memories of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. are best described as:

a)

recognition memories.

b)

implicit memories.

c)

flashbulb memories.

d)

procedural memories.

10.

New learning disrupts the recall of old information.

a)

RI-Retroactive Interference

b)

PI-Proactive Interference

c)

Context Dependent

d)

Mood Congruent

11.

Has a relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of information.

a)

Sensory memory

b)

Short term memory

c)

Long term memory

d)

Encoding

12.

Chao plays music in the subway station and occasionally someone throw money in his guitar case. His behavior is learned through

a)

classical conditioning

b)

operant conditioning

c)

observational learning

13.

______ coined the term CLASSICAL CONDITIONING while _____ coined the term OPERANT CONDITIONING.

a)

Ivan Pavlov; B.F. Skinner

b)

Albert Bandura; B.F. Skinner

c)

B.F. Skinner; Ivan Pavlov

d)

Albert Bandura; Ivan Polov

14.

The term for getting information into your brain.

a)

Recall

b)

Retrieval

c)

Storage

d)

Encoding

15.
Fill-in-the-blank test questions measure ________; matching concepts with their definitions measures ________.
a)
recall; recognition
b)
recognition; relearning
c)
recall; relearning
d)
recognition; rehearsal
16.

What is a consequence that improves a behavior that it follows?

EX: Praising a student for not running in the hallway.

a)

Antecedent

b)

Behaving

c)

Reinforcer

d)

Conditioning

17.
Martine needs a hammer but cannot find one. As she looks around her apartment, her gaze passes over a metal paperweight and some other objects that could potentially serve as a makeshift hammer. However, she is so focused on these objects' typical uses that she does not think to use any of them as a hammer. Martine is experiencing which of the following?
a)
Fundamental Attribution Error
b)
Functional Fixedness
c)
Blindsight
d)
Hawthorne Effect
e)
Repression
18.

What is the most successful reinforcement schedule to use after an animal has learned a trick?

a)

Fixed-interval

b)

Variable-ratio

19.

The term for getting information out of your brain.

a)

Recall

b)

Retrieval

c)

Storage

d)

Encoding

20.

Which of the following is a stimulus?

a)

being afraid

b)

brushing your teeth

c)

the smell of bacon

21.

In John Watson's "Little Albert" studies, a loud noise was paired with a white rat causing Little Albert to be afraid. What is the conditioned response?

a)

the white rat

b)

the loud noise

c)

fearing the loud noise

d)

fearing the white rat

22.

The term for small bursts of studying over a long period of time.

a)

Tip of the Tongue

b)

Spacing effect

c)

Serial position effect

d)

Method of Loci

23.

Jaxon wears a tie whenever he goes to work so he won't get written up. Now he wears a tie to any formal occasion. This is

a)

spontaneous recovery

b)

extinction

c)

generalization

d)

discrimination

24.

The term for retaining information in your brain.

a)

Recall

b)

Retrieval

c)

Storage

d)

Encoding

25.
Once Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate to the sound of a bell, the bell was a(n)
a)
unconditioned stimulus
b)
neutral stimulus 
c)
conditioned stimulus
d)
unconditioned response
26.

The term that shows how much we forget when we do not review information?

a)

Effortful encoding

b)

Automatic encoding

c)

Spacing

d)

Ebbinghaus curve

27.

Old learning disrupts the recall of new information.

a)

RI-Retroactive Interference

b)

PI-Proactive Interference

c)

Context Dependent

d)

Mood Congruent

28.

You are looking at the family album and see a picture of your sixth birthday party and you experience a bunch of memories about that party and the people that attended. What type of memory is this?

a)

Procedural

b)

Episodic

29.

When Becca was a kid, she fell out of a treehouse and broke her arm. Now, she feels scared of heights. In this scenario, which of the following is the unconditioned response?

a)

heights

b)

breaking an arm

c)

fear

d)

falling out of the treehouse

30.

What do we call a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior?

a)

A.Incentive

b)

B.Refractory period

c)

C.Emotion

d)

D.Motivation

e)

E.Instinct

31.

A parent's statement to their child, "We want you to get A's like the neighbor's son" will lead to _______.

a)

compliance

b)

intrinsic motivation

c)

extrinsic motivation

d)

obedience

32.

Your best friend just won the lottery. Even though you are envious, you also cannot help feeling excited along with him because you are both grinning from ear to ear. Your reaction supports the ________.

a)

James-Lange Theory

b)

Cannon-Bard Theory

c)

Schacter & Singer's two-factor hypothesis

d)

Facial Feedback Hypothesis

33.
Homeostasis, which is the goal of drive reduction, is defined as:
a)
a desire to perform behavior in return for rewards.
b)
a rigidly patterned behavior characteristic of an entire species.
c)
an aroused or activated state that is often triggered by a physiological need.
d)
the body's tendency to maintain a constant internal state.
34.

What is the definition of operant conditioning?

a)

Learning through association of stimuli

b)

Learning through instinctive drift

c)

Learning by observing others

d)

Learning through reinforcement or punishment

35.

What is the term for the reappearance after a rest period, of an extinguished response in operant conditioning?

a)

Extinction

b)

Discrimination

c)

Spontaneous recovery

d)

Generalization

36.

What is the learned association between the taste of a particular food and illness called?

a)

Operant conditioning

b)

Classical conditioning

c)

Taste aversion

d)

Observational learning

37.

What is the process of observing and imitating a specific behavior called?

a)

Habituation

b)

Shaping

c)

Insight learning

d)

Modeling

38.

What is the perception that we control our own fate called?

a)

Mirror Neurons

b)

External Locus of Control

c)

Internal Locus of Control

d)

Learned Helplessness

39.

What is the term for the strengthening of a reinforced response?

a)

Generalization

b)

Discrimination

c)

Reinforcement

d)

Conditioning

40.

What is the term for the diminishing of a conditioned response when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus?

a)

Extinction

b)

Spontaneous recovery

c)

Discrimination

d)

Generalization

41.

What is the term for the process of learning associations between events?

a)

Operant Conditioning

b)

Classical Conditioning

c)

Observational Learning

d)

Associative Learning

42.

Who is known for the experiment with dogs to demonstrate classical conditioning?

a)

John B. Watson

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

B.F. Skinner

d)

Albert Bandura

43.

The learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses.

a)

Operant Conditioning

b)

Classical Conditioning

44.

Any event of stimulus, that when following a response, increased the probability that the response will occur again.

a)

Reinforcement

b)

Punishment

c)

Extinction

d)

Spontaneous Recovery

45.

My dad puts on his seatbelt to make his car stop beeping

a)

positive reinforcement

b)

negative reinforcement

c)

conditioned reinforcement

d)

unconditioned reinforcement

46.

After Lee refused to clean his room, his mother took away his smart phone, Lee's mum is making use of

a)

positive reinforcement

b)

negative reinforcement

c)

positive punishment

d)

negative punishment

47.

What is observational learning?

a)

Observational learning is learning that occurs through trial and error.

b)

Observational learning is learning that occurs through listening to lectures and taking notes.

c)

Observational learning is learning that occurs through reading books and articles.

d)

Observational learning is learning that occurs through observing and imitating the behavior of others.

48.

What is the concept of shaping in learning?

a)

Shaping is a technique used to punish and discourage behavior.

b)

Shaping is a technique used to ignore and neglect behavior.

c)

Shaping is a technique used to reinforce and gradually guide behavior towards a desired outcome.

d)

Shaping is a technique used to randomly reward behavior.

49.

What is the role of motivation in learning?

a)

Motivation has no impact on learning.

b)

Motivation is essential for learning.

c)

Motivation is a distraction in the learning process.

d)

Motivation is only important for certain subjects.

50.

Getting a free Subway sandwich on your 5th purchase is an example of what?

a)

Fixed- Ratio

b)

Variable Ratio

c)

Fixed interval

d)

Variable Interval

51.

Washing your child's mouth out with soap when they curse

a)

Positive Reinforcer

b)

Negative Reinforcer

c)

Positive Punishment

d)

Negative Punishment

52.

Getting paid to work

a)

Positive Reinforcer

b)

Negative Reinforcer

c)

Positive Punishment

d)

Negative Punishment

53.

The food is what?

a)

Unconditioned stimulus

b)

Conditioned stimulus

c)

Unconditioned response

d)

Conditioned Response

54.

True or false: Extrinsic rewards are better motivators than intrinsic ones?

a)

True

b)

False

55.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

In classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus (US), comes to trigger a conditioned response (CR).

a)

Neutral Stimulus (NS)

b)

Unconditioned Response (UR)

c)

Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

d)

Conditioned response (CR)

e)

Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

56.

Choose the Matching Term to the Definition.

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning.

a)

Neutral Stimulus (NS)

b)

Unconditioned Response (UR)

c)

Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

d)

Conditioned response (CR)

e)

Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

57.

Memory of a specific event

a)

Semantic Memory

b)

Implicit Memory

c)

Episodic Memory

d)

Long Term Memory

58.

Memory of facts and concepts

a)

Semantic Memory

b)

Implicit Memory

c)

Explicit Memory

d)

Episodic Memory

59.

In-depth memory of clear, specific information

a)

Episodic Memory

b)

Short Term Memory

c)

Long Term Memory

d)

Explicit Memory

60.

Processes that you have memorized and know, but the details are not highly focused on

a)

Implicit Memory

b)

Explicit Memory

c)

Episodic Memory

d)

Echoic Memory

61.

Translation of information into a form in which it can be used

a)

Storage

b)

Encoding

c)

Retrieval

d)

Maintenance

62.

Remember more when you are in a similar emotional state

a)

Context Dependent Memory

b)

State Dependent Memory

c)

Elaborative Rehearsal

d)

Long Term Memory

63.

Severe memory loss caused by injury to the brain

a)

Decay

b)

Amnesia

c)

Interference

d)

Chunking

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