PSYC101 - Exam 2 Review - Ch. 6-9

Extrinsic rewards work better if the rewards signal that performance was well done.

When someone who fears moving trucks also becomes afraid of moving cars and motorcycles, that fear has _______.

__ said the experience of a split-second fear response still requires an effortless, unconscious cognitive appraisal.

What is activated both by washing the dishes and by simply watching someone else wash the dishes?

Use of ___ is a reliance on quick intuitive judgments.

Although someone has lost their ability to form explicit memories, their ___ ability may remain intact.

Over 50% of entering American college students use social media at least 6 hours a week.

In classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously neutral stimulus becomes the....

Your mother tells you that you can learn anything you put your mind to. She has a ___ mindset.

What is something you should NOT do when setting a goal for yourself?

Feelings of hunger are accompanied by stomach contractions.

Retroactive interference is the disruptive effect of an older memory on the retention of new info.

Negative social media posts tend to lead to online friends also expressing more negative emotions. This demonstrates...

"all governments should use intelligence scores to identify who should/shouldn't reproduce to benefit humankind" =

John B. Watson conducted the first experimental studies of associative learning.

Operant behavior is to an automatic response as respondent behavior is to behavior that produces consequences.

Volunteers who when 4 weeks without social media experienced decreased subjective well-being.

__ is explicit memory of facts and general knowledge.

You didn't realize a penguin was a bird because it didn't closely resemble your bird...

Wernicke's area is part of the brain's cortex that directs the muscles movements involved in speech.

If you just spent 6 months studying abroad in China, these experiences likely made you more...

To learn the names of US presidents, you divide them into sections based on timeframes. This is an example of...

Prospective memory is the memory of our past.

Negative, destructive behavior is considered prosocial behavior.

You watched your big bro play sports & win a trophy. You now want to play sports to win a trophy. This relates to...

When humans experience negative emotions the...

___ is characterized by having an eerie sense of having been in your exact location before.

best example of a category

You watch your big sis practice karate. You then imitate the same behaviors & actions while playing w/friends. This is..

Which set of words are you more likely to remember thanks to the value of imagery?

Expressing excessively strong pro/con views with superficial understanding of proposals for political change illustrates

Chimpanzees are capable of using appropriate syntax when using sign language.

Learning strategy that involves successive approximations to achieve desired goal.

Developing ___ is most clearly contributed to by elevated levels of stress hormones.

Newer understanding of short-term memory; conscious/active processing incoming sensory info & info from long-term mem.

During the process of ___, memory reconsolidation involves modifying stored memories.

The last 3 steps of the SQ3R study technique are recognize, recall, and relearn.

__ swallowed a balloon attached to a recording device & reported feelings of hunger by pressing a key when he felt pangs

If you have been fasting all day and feel very hungry after, your hunger is an example of...

Left prefrontal cortex activation is to right prefrontal cortex activation as disgust is to delight.

Framing = more likely to do something if assumed answer is yes but you can choose to opt out vs if assumed answer is no

Process simulation of effectively studying 5 minutes each day has little effect on student exam scores.

You spend at least 5 hours every day practicing hockey. Your goal is to eventually play for the NHL. This goal is...

Salivation to the sound of a tone was a conditioned stimulus in Pavlov's experiments.

After long-term relationship with X, you now struggle remembering new friend (Y)'s phone number = proactive interference

__ argued our emotional reactions to specific situations can occur rapidly & prior to any conscious interpretations.

Miller said about 7 info bits is the capacity of ____ memory.

Two examples of _____ include both classical and operant conditioning.

Deliberate, conscious thought is helpful when you do something you've never done before.

Natural selection favors traits that aid survival.