Exam 2 Flashcards
Heather’s new friend lives about 2 hours away from her. When Heather mentally pictures the route between her house and her friend’s house she is using the _____ component of working memory.
Question 1Select one:
a.
episodic buffer
b.
visuospatial sketchpad
c.
central executive
d.
phonological loop
b.
visuospatial sketchpad
You give your friend a long list of unrelated words to study. After that study period, you ask them to write down (i.e., recall) as many as they can. Based on what we covered in the lecture segments, which of the below options for number of words recalled BEST fits with what we learned about memory?
Question 2Select one:
a.
15
b.
6
c.
2
d.
12
b.
6
During a night of (responsible!) drinking, Misty took off her ring and put it in a safe place. She couldn’t remember where she put her ring until the next time she was drinking. Misty’s pattern of recall best illustrates the:
Question 3Select one:
a.
transfer appropriate processing
b.
encoding specificity principle
c.
levels of processing
d.
tip-of-the-tongue effect
b.
encoding specificity principle
Sasha decides to start studying for her sociology exam. When she starts reading through the lecture notes she took she sees that she has a lot of spots where she only wrote down part of a thought (i.e., a couple of words), and that she seems to have a lot of things just randomly written all over her pages. Based on this information, we should predict that her memory will be poor for the material due to issues with:
Question 4Select one:
a.
duration
b.
rehearsal
c.
chunking
d.
organization
d.
organization
Your friend tells you that they remember how much the two of you laughed last week at the movie you went to see. What they’re telling you is an example of ____ memory.
Question 5Select one:
a.
implicit
b.
semantic
c.
episodic
d.
working
c.
episodic
Jean-Claude decides to train his roommate, Toby, to not put his feet up on the coffee table. Every 4th time that Jean-Claude walks into the living room and sees Toby with his feet not on the coffee table he gives him a candy. What type of schedule is Jean-Claude using on his roommate?
Question 1Answer
a.
fixed interval
b.
variable ratio
c.
variable interval
d.
fixed ratio
d.
fixed ratio
Harley is training her guinea pig, Sparkles, to roll over using its favourite treat. She decides that after every 3 minutes Sparkles will get a treat for the first time she rolls over. What type of schedule is Harley using with Sparkles?
Question 2Answer
a.
interval ratio
b.
fixed ratio
c.
fixed interval
d.
variable interval
c.
fixed interval
Wednesday is training her tarantula to push a ball. On average, she rewards her spider the 7th time it pushes the ball by giving it a fly to eat. What type of reinforcement is Wednesday using with her pet spider?
Question 3Answer
a.
variable ratio
b.
fixed ratio
c.
fixed interval
d.
variable interval
a.
variable ratio
Mickey is training his nephew, Jack, to say “thank you” after he receives something. On average, he rewards his nephew the first time he says “thank you” after 10 minutes (so, on average, it’s after 10 mins). What type of schedule is Mickey using?
Question 4Answer
a.
fixed ratio
b.
fixed interval
c.
variable interval
d.
variable ratio
c.
variable interval
The smell of fresh cupcakes makes Willy smile and feel happy because he associates it with his favourite aunt, who he loved spending time with. In classical conditioning the smell of the cupcakes is a(n):
Question 1Select one:
a.
conditioned response
b.
unconditioned response
c.
unconditioned stimulus
d.
conditioned stimulus
d.
conditioned stimulus
Debbie knows that her dog, Mr. Bojangles, hates when she sings. Thus, she decides that whenever she sees Mr. Bojangles on the couch (where he is not allowed to be) she will sing until he jumps off of the couch, and at that point she stops singing. Now, if she ever sees Mr. Bojangles on the couch all she has to do is start singing and he very quickly jumps off of the couch so that she will stop. Debbie trained Mr. Bojangles using:
Question 2Select one:
a.
negative reinforcement
b.
positive punishment
c.
positive reinforcement
d.
negative punishment
a.
negative reinforcement
While James and his sister Orla were outside playing he watched her hurt herself by touching the sharp barbwire fence, and she cried for a long time. Based on this experience of seeing what happened to Orla, James also learned not to touch the barbwire fence, which is an example of:
Question 3Select one:
a.
classical conditioning
b.
observational learning
c.
intermittent reinforcement
d.
operational conditioning
b.
observational learning
Leila decides to use a fixed-interval schedule to train her cat, which means she should give a reinforcer (e.g., a food reward):
Question 4Select one:
a.
after a variable number of nonreinforced responses
b.
for the first response that occurs after a fixed amount of time has elapsed
c.
for the first response that occurs after a variable amount of time has elapsed
d.
after a fixed number of nonreinforced responses
b.
for the first response that occurs after a fixed amount of time has elapsed
Fester conditioned his dog to howl every time his daughter starts to play the piano. The piano is now a conditioned stimulus, but what was it called BEFORE the acquisition phase?
Question 5Select one:
a.
neutral stimulus
b.
discriminate stimulus
c.
generalized stimulus
d.
unconditioned stimulus
a.
neutral stimulus
Steph is out walking in the field behind her house when she looks to her left and sees a large wolf only a few feet away from her. It would be her ____ system that is responsible for the “fight or flight” response that she likely would experience.
Question 1Select one:
a.
central
b.
sympathetic
c.
somatic
d.
parasympathetic
b.
sympathetic
