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Fall 2022| PSY 200 Exam 2 Review
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1
____ is the opposite of reinforcement.
Partial Reinforcement
Punishment
Continuous reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
2
The best analogy for the way long-term memory is conceptualized would be ___
a revolving door
a desktop
a filing cabinet
a television
3
If a student studies very hard in order to get good grades, the good grade is an example of _.
positive reinforcement
negative reinforcement
partial reinforcement
punishment
4
__ is retention of memory for some period time.
Retrieval
Encoding
Storage
Evaluation
5
Humans seem to have a set point for weight that makes it difficult to either gain or lose weight.
True
False
6
When a behavior is followed by negative reinforcement, the behavior is likely to
be suppressed
decrease
extinguish
increased
7
Rewarding successive approximations of a desired behavior is part of which process?
shaping
reinforcement
extinction
8
Unless you repeat them, items placed in short-term memory are usually lost in less than __
60 seconds
30 seconds
15 seconds.
2 seconds
9
This is a strategy that involves relating new information to something you already know.
rote rehearsal
elaborative association
priming
elaborative rehearsal
10
What type of schedule reinforcement is...a person sits by the phone waiting for a phone call.
variable ratio
variable interval
fixed interval
fixed ratio
11
According to research, approximately how many items can be stored in short-term memory?
11
7
33
13
12
____ drives are to biology as ____ drives are to learning.
Primary; secondary
Homeostatic; primary
Primary; homeostatic
Secondary; primary
13
When the number of responses is important to a schedule of reinforcement, that schedule is called a __ schedule.
interval
conditioned
time-delayed
ratio
14
Iconic sensory memory lasts longer than echoic sensory memory.
True
False
15
Which of the following is an example of habituation?
learning to ride a bike
learning to smoke cigarettes
learning to associate the smell of rose perfume to your grandmother.
learning to ignore the sound of trucks on the highway that passes by
16
Declarative memory is a type of explicit memory.
True
False
17
This memory system might be linkened to a dictionary.
nondeclarative memory
working memory
semantic memory
episodic memory
18
Maintenance rehearsal is the most effective way to move something from short-term to long-term memory.
True
False
19
Sensory memory normally holds visual images for a fraction of a second and sounds for about ___.
an hour
2 seconds
one minute
30 seconds
20
The are two main subsystems within long term memory. These are ____
episodic memory and semantic memory
sensory memory and semantic memory
episodic memory and eidetic memory
declarative memory and nondeclarative memory
21
__ is a person's vast storehouse of permanent or relatively permanent memories.
Long-term memory
Short-term memory
Episodic memory
Partial memory
22
The orienting reflex is to _ as habituation is to _.
simple information; complex information
learning; forgetting
novel experience; repeated experience
adaptive; maladaptive
23
Jameel has a desire to learn as much about psychology as he can. Psychologist would call this desire a(n)
motive
thought
emotion
instinct
24
Doing a job well because of a sense of pride in your accomplishment would be a good example of __ motivation.
extrinsic
arousal
intrinsic
drive
25
Which of the following is NOT one of the three processes in memory?
encoding
storage
consolidation
retrieval
26
Short-term memory ususally codes information according to ___
haptically
the exact sensory stimulus
sound and sight
contextual code
27
Which model of memory proposes that the deeper a person processes information, the better it will be remembered?
information-processing model
parallel distributed processing model
levels-of-processing model
three stage
28
Remembering the name of the first president of the United States would be an example of an implicit memory
True
False
29
Memories for general facts and personal information are called ___
declarative memories
nondeclarative memories
semantic memory
episodic memory
30
The tendency to recall things that are presented at the end of a sequence is called ___
the sequence order effect
the recency effect
the primacy effect
the serial position effect
31
The three parts of the information-processing theory of memory are __
encoding, storage and retrieval
CS, UCS, UR, and CR
sensory memory, short-term memory and long term memory
shallow, medium, and deep processing
32
Al must build 25 radios before he receives $20. What schedule of reinforcement is being used?
a fixed interval schedule
a continuous schedule
a fixed ratio schedule
variable ratio schedule
33
___ formulated the "law of effect."
E.L. Thorndike
John Watson
B.F. Skinner
34
Mulitiple-choice, matching, and true/false questions are all examples of _ test items.
recall
easy
relearning
recognition
35
The abbreviation CS stands for ____.
conditioned stimulus
correlated stimulus
conditional situation
36
In which type of conditioning is an association formed between one stimulus and another?
observational conditioning
operant conditioning
classical conditioning
clinical conditioning
37
Homeostasis is the basic principle of incentive theories of motivation.
False
True
38
The memory for events we have experienced personally is known as ____
semantic memory
iconic memory
non-declarative memory.
episodic memory
39
Any event or object in the environment to which an organism responds is a _____.
conditioned variable
consequence
discriminated variable
stimulus
40
Extinction in operant conditioning involves ____
negative reinforcement
positive reinforcement
withholding reinforcement
punishment
41
In a __ schedule, the first response made after a same specific period of time has elapsed brings the reinforcement.
fixed interval
fixed ratio
variable-interval
variable-ratio
42
What are the two major types of rehearsal (for moving information from short-term to long-term memory)?
condensed and expanded
elaborative and maintenance
maintenance and permanent
elaborative and permanent
43
If one wants to increase the capacity of short-term memory, more items can be held through the process of ___.
rote rehearsal
data compression
decoding
chunking
44
The reappearance of a learned response after extinction has occurred is called ____
instinctive drift
law of effect
spontaneous recovery
stimulus discrimination
45
When a stimulus is removed from a person resulting in a decrease in the probability of response, it is known as _.
positive punishment
positive reinforcement
negative reinforcement
negative punishment
46
Which theory of memory is most similar in conceptualization to the way computers function?
parallel memory model
information-processing model
extinction
operant conditioning
47
Any stimulus, such as a bell that requires learning to elicit a conditioned response is called a(n) ____.
unconditioned stimulus
conditioned stimulus
neutral stimulus
48
Which of the following is the result of learning?
all of these choices
getting an A on your psychology exam
riding a bicylce
knitting a sweater