Exam 2 Flashcards

1
Q
  1. The behaviors learned with classical conditioning are _____________________,
    whereas those learned with operant conditioning are_____________________.
A

Involuntary,voluntary

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  1. Avoiding foods that induce sickness has _____________. This taste aversion helps organisms to survive.
A

Adaptive value

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  1. Every time you open the pantry where the dog food is stored, you dog starts to salivate. His reaction is a(n):
A

Conditioned response

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  1. Little Albert was a baby who originally had no fear of rats. In an experiment conducted by John Watson and Rayner, he was classically conditioned to fear white rats through the paring of a loud noise with exposure to a rat. His resulting fear is an example of a(n):
A

Operant conditioning

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  1. _________________ indicates that if a behavior is followed by a pleasurable outcome, it is likely to be repeated
A

The law of effect

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  1. In Bandura’s Bobo doll study, children who saw an adult attacking and shouting at a doll:
A

We’re more likely to display aggressive behavior

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  1. According to research, there Is a strong association between physical aggression and exposure to violent music, video games, and TV. However, this association between media portrayals and violent behaviors does not mean a ________________ exists. There could be other factors like parenting involved.
A

Cause and effect relationship

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  1. Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement?
A

A dog whining in the am , leading the owner to wake up and take it outside

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  1. Rats allowed to explore a maze, without getting reinforcers until the 11th day of the experiment, subsequently behaved in the maze as if they had been given reinforcers through the entire experiment. There behavior is evidence of:
A

Latent learning

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  1. You are struggling to recall the name of a movie you watched last year. When you do finally remember the was Captain Marvel, which memory process were us using?
A

Retrieval

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  1. Baddeley and colleagues proposed that the purpose of _______________ is to actively maintain information while the mind is performing complex tasks. The phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, central executive and episodic buffer all play a role in this process.
A

Working memory

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12
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  1. Your friend tells you she prefers multiple-choice tests because she is able to identify an answer when she sees it listed as one of the choices for a question. She is describing her __________, which is the process of matching incoming data to information stored in long-term memory.
A

Recognition

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13
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_______________causes problems with the retrieval of memories because information you learned in the past, and ________________ causes problems with retrieval due to recently learned information.

A

Proactive interference ; retroactive interference

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14
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In studies by Elizabeth Loftus, and colleagues, around 25% of participants were able to “remember” an event that never happened. This type of _______________ shows us how the malleability of memory can influence recall.

A

False memory

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In one study, Loftus and Palmer (1974) found that when they told participants two cars had “smashed” into each other, these same participants were more likely to report they had seen broken glass in a previously viewed film than participants who were told the cars had “hit” each other. This tendency for ne and possibly deceptive information to distort one’s memory of a past incident is known as ____________________________.

A

The misinformation effect

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16
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Traumatic experiences that are thought to be pushed out of consciousness are often referred to as __________________memories.

A

Repressed

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17
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____________________ refers to the increased efficiency of neural communication over time, resulting in learning and the formation of memories.

A

Long term potentiation

18
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Retrograde amnesia is generally is generally caused by some sort of trauma to the brain. People with retrograde amnesia generally cannot:

A

Access memories of events created before the trauma

19
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_______________ refers to the increased efficiency of neural communication over time, resulting in learning and the formation of memories.

A

Long term potentiation

20
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  1. The ______________ is essential for creating new explicit memories, but not necessarily implicit memories.
A

Hippocampus

21
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  1. _____________is a mental activity associated with obtaining, converting, and using knowledge, and ________________means coming to a decision, reaching a solution, or forming a belief.
A

Cognition;thinking

22
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_____________are mental representations of categories of objects, situation, and ideas that share central features or characteristics.

A

Concepts

23
Q

After eating at a restaurant, you try to calculate a 20% tip for the server. Your friend suggests that you take the amount of the bill, move the decimal to the left one space, and multiply by 2. Your friend is using a _________________ to solve the problem.

A

An algorithm

24
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The ______________ suggests that language can affect thinking and perception.

A

Linguistic relativity hypothesis

25
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Because of the ______________, we tend to overestimate the likelihood of an event occurring if we can easily recall a similar event from the past.

A

Availability heuristic

26
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The wording of a question can influence the outcome of a decision. People are more likely to prefer, ground beef it is descried as 805 lean as opposed to 20% fat. This is an example of:

A

The framing effect

27
Q

Infants can recognize and distinguish among all______________ from all languages until about 10 months of age. This is why older children and adults have more difficulty learning to speak a foreign language without the accent of their birth language.

A

Phonemes

28
Q

.The word “unexcitable” cite, able). can be broken into three parts (un, excite, able.) Remove one of these and the meaning of the word changes. These three parts represent____________, the fundamental units that bring meaning to a language.

A

Morphemes

29
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According to B.F. Skinner, children learn to speak a particular language because

A

They get reinforce the from their parents for various utterances

30
Q

A languages’ rules for arranging words and symbols in a sentence or parts of a sentence is called

A

Syntax

31
Q

Which of the following would be considered a prototype for fruit?

A

Apple

32
Q

What is measured by the task in which participants are asked to think of as many different uses for a brick as they can?

A

Originality and flexibility of thought

33
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A child discovers that 2 x 2 is the same as 2 + 2. He therefore wrongly concludes that 3 x 3 is the same as 3 + 3. What tendency is affecting this child’s problem-solving strategies?

A

Mental set

34
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____ is one’s innate ability to solve problems,adapt and learn

A

Intelligence

35
Q

To determine the _____________of an intelligence test, you could give the assessment to a sample
of participants and then compare the results with another assessment of intelligence to make sure the test is measuring what it intends to measure.

A

Validity

36
Q

Historically, a child’s IQ; was calculated by dividing _______by chronological age and multiplying by _____________.

A

Mental age/ 100

37
Q

Someone who is good at detecting if a person is lying would have good

A

Interpersonal intelligence

38
Q

What distinguishes scientific thinking from non scientific thinking?

A

The ability to separate believes from evidence

39
Q

The environmental influence that has the clearest, most profound effect on intellectual development is:

A

Being raised in conditions of extreme deprivation

40
Q

The WAIS is best able to tell us

A

How test takers compare with other adults in vocabulary and arithmetic reasoning

41
Q

The closest similarIty in IQ scores are

A

Identical twins reared apart

42
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As we age, ___________intelligence seems to decline, while _____________ intelligence tends to increase

A

Fluid;crystallized