Quiz 2 - Major Perspectives (1)

Question 1

Which of the below is an example of negative reinforcement?

1. Withdrawing attention from the toddler when he/she does something that you don’t like.
2. Taking a toy from at toddler when he/she is using the toy to hit a sister or brother.
3. Giving a treat to a toddler when he/she is throwing a tantrum in Colesworth to make the toddler be quiet.
4. Providing a reward to a toddler for playing with a toy nicely and not using it to hit a brother or sister.

Answer 1

Giving a treat to a toddler when he/she is throwing a tantrum in Colesworth to make the toddler be quiet.

Question 2

Models who are …………. for behaving in a particular way are more likely to be imitated than those who are not.

Answer 2

reinforced

Question 3

Which psychological perspective has a positive, philosophical view of human nature?

Answer 3

Humanistic

Question 4

When talking about memory, the lecturer said that if you could sit the exam in the place where you took (listened to or watched) the lecture, especially if you took the lecture in the same place each week, you would remember more about the lecture content in that place than anywhere else. This is an example of ………………… memory.

Answer 4

episodic

Question 5

How would a cognitive psychologist who is interested in memory most likely explain the flood of childhood memories a person experiences on the psychoanalysts couch?

Answer 5

Childhood memories are triggered by memory retrieval cues.

Question 6

Jean Piaget, the famous Swiss developmental psychologist, told a story of how, when he was a toddler, he was nearly kidnapped. His nanny was the heroine and rescued little Jean. Even though Piaget had a clear memory of this event it turned out that it didn’t happen. Many years later, his nanny, on her deathbed, confessed that she had made it up. What sort of memory did Jean Piaget have about this event?

Answer 6

Pseudo-memory.

Question 7

One of the topics on the major perspectives included the examples of Phineas Gage, HM and aphasias to illustrate:

Answer 7

Specialisation of brain-behaviour relationships.

Question 8

What effect does damage to Broca’s area of the frontal lobe have on behaviour?

Answer 8

The person will have expressive aphasia.

NOT The person will have receptive aphasia.

Question 9

Which part of the brain was damaged so that HM could not remember anything new?

Answer 9

Hippocampus.

Question 10

What is the following the definition of? “enduring values, beliefs, behaviours and traditions shared by a group of people and passed on to the next generation”.

Answer 10

Culture.