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1
John Watson was able to teach Little Albert to...
Fear Rats
Like fur coats
Like dogs
Fear Noises
2
With a variable-ratio, you can't be sure when your behavior will be rewarded.
False
True
3
Pick the best example of a concept is...
A category of ideas
A category of events
A category of objects, events, or people
A category of people
4
A flashbulb memory would typically be stored in the ? memory.
Implicit
Echoic
Long term
Iconic
5
Skinner's behavioral techniques included a procedure known as....
Intrinsic Motivation
Modeling
Latent Learning
Shaping
6
The process of getting information into memory is called...
Chunking
Encoding
Registering
Priming
7
Your instinct is a complex, unlearned, and fixed pattern of behaviors common to all.
True
False
8
The use of heuristics rather than algorithms is most likely to save time
True
False
9
Maslow's most basic or lowest level of need includes..
Self esteem
Food and drink
Satisfaction
Love and friendship
10
Every time you get an answer correct, you are awarded a point, points are ? reinforces.
Positive
Negative
11
The most ambiguous nonverbal clue to our specific emotional state is provided by our...
Crossed arms
Body posture
Breathing
Facial Muscles
12
The Misinformation Effect refers to the...
Recalling experiences that are consistent with one's mood
Disruptive effect of prior learning on your recall
Thinking "I've been here before"
Incorporation of misleading information into your memory
13
You always use a leash to walk the dog,So
whenever
the dog sees the leash it gets excited b/c..
Extinction
Generalization
14
The process of Retrieval refers to...
Conscious repetition of information to be remembered
Organization of information into manageable units
Getting information out of memory storage
Persistence of learning over time
15
Homeostasis refers to...
Tendency to seek external incentives
The tendency to maintain a steady internal state
Setting of the body's "weight thermostat"
Theory of the development of sexual orientation
16
(Blank) refers to our ability to encode, store, and retrieve information.
Recall
Memory
Encoding
Schema
17
(Blank) used nonsense syllables in studying human memory and discovered the forgetting curve.
Loftus
James
Ebbinghaus
Pavlov
18
Original version of the Stanford-Binet IQ was defined as...
Chronological age subtracted from mental age
Mental age divided by chronological age
Mental age multiplied by 100
Mental age divided by chronological age & multiplied by 100
19
Semantic Encoding refers to the processing of...
Visual Images
Sounds
Meanings
Smells
20
Tying your shoes is NOT an example of Implicit Memory
False
True
21
Saying something over and over again to keep it in your mind is called....
Rehearsal
Consolidation
Mnemonics
Encoding
22
Cognitive psychologist are most directly concerned with the study of...
Emotions
Links with DNA
Thinking
GeneticsDN
23
Anorexia Nervosa includes symptoms of...
Restricting food
Binge eating food
Purging food
Being average weight and height
24
Zygote, Embryo, and Fetus is the correct order of the stages of prenatal development.
False
True
25
When asked to remember a list of words, the tendency to remember the words at the END of list..
Anterograde Effect
Primacy Effect
Recency Effect
Retrograde Effect
26
A strong emotional bond that one person feels towards another special person is called..
Attachment
Passion
Temperment
Sex Drive
27
Tests that are given randomly throughout the semester would be considered on a ? schedule
Fixed-Interval
Variable-Ratio
Fixed-Ratio
Variable-Interval
28
Luke remembers his old girlfriend's phone number but struggles with his new girlfriend's number
Example of Proactive Interference
Example of Priming
Example of Retroactive Interference
Example of Source Amnesia
29
Underlying principle of operant conditioning is the idea that behaviors are influenced by...
Thoughts people have about them
Association with other behaviors
Unconditioned stimuli that precede them
Consequences that follow them
30
If a small child watches violent movies on TV, this will most likely leads to her....
Underestimate the actual frequency of violent crimes
Learn karate and getting a purple belt
Become more hesistent about starting fights
Experience less distress at the sight of kids fighting later
31
The use of heuristics rather than algorithms is most likely to...
Minimize the overconfidence phenomenon
Involve greater reliance on language skills
Save time
Yield more accurate solutions to problems
32
Hunger controls are located within the brain's...
Amygdala
Medulla
Hypothalamus
Temporal Lobe
33
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to perceive, manage, understand, & use emotions
False
True
34
Development psychologists are most directly concerned with the study of...
Understanding the human lifespan
Thinking
Understanding how babies are made
Expressions
35
A Mental Set is a ....
Group of conclusions derived from certain assumptions
Methodical step by step procedure for solving problems
Mental grouping of similiar objects, events, or people
Tendency to approach a problem in a way that's had success
36
Skinner is to shaping as Bandura is to....
Discriminating
Modeling
Punishing
Learning
37
Learning that certain events occur together is called..
Latent Learning
Shaping
Observational Learning
Associative Learning
38
Your relatively permanent & limitless storehouse of memory system is called...
Sensory Memory
Long Term Memory
Flashbulb Memory
State-Dependent Memory
39
When you can't solve a problem because you can't think of new ways to use familiar objects....
You're having Functional Fixedness
You're having Divergant Thinking
You're having Confirmation Bias
You're having a Mental Image Shift
40
The ? in Pavlov's experiment was the dog's salivation
Unconditioned Stimulus
Conditioned Response
Conditioned Stimulus
Unconditioned Response
41
Which is an unconditional response?
Clapping around an exciting concert
Playing jump rope
Sweating from hot weather
Running through a maze to get food
42
(Blank) memory is another term for our current, active short-term memory.
Working
Procedural
Schematic
Primary
43
If you were punched in the arm every time you used a swear word, being punched would be a....
Unconditioned Response
Consequence
Conditioned Stimulus
Reinforcement
44
Which theory states emotions results from the cognitive labeling of our physiological arousal?
Two-Factor Theory
Relative Deprivaion
Cannon-Bard
Adaptation-Level
45
Bell-shaped pattern represents frequency of occurrence of test scores in general population...
Standardization Score
Normal Curve
Reliability Coefficient
Factor Analysis
46
A Teratogen is a(n)...
Chromosomal Abnormality
Unborn child w/ one or more physical defects
Fertilized egg that undergoes rapid cell division
Substance that can cross the placental barrier
47
Your short term memory has limited capacity
True
False
48
According to Erikson, achieving a sense of identity is the special task of the adolescent.
False
True
49
Learning involves... (choose the best answer)
The ability to think abstractly
The development of prosocial behavior
A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience
A reduction in extrinsic motivation
50
If you tell others to do what we say but not as we do, people will learn that....
Practice but not preach the virtues
Neither practice nor preach the virtues
Preach the virtues but not to practice them
Practice and preach the virtues
51
One's ability to reason quickly&abstractly, which tends to decrease during late adulthood is...
Fluid Intelligence
Neutral Processing Speed
Crystallized Intelligence
Intelligence Quotient
52
A type of motivated forgetting which anxiety-arousing memories are blocked from conscious..
Retroactive Interference
Repression
The Spacing Effect
Proactive Interference
53
Chunking refers to...
Unconscious encoding of incidental info
Organization of info into meaningful units
Tendency to recall best the first item in a list
Getting info into memory through the use of visual imagery
54
During the TV news, you glance at it every 5 minutes to check for a local story, you're on a...
Fixed-Interval
Variable-Interval
Fixed-Ratio
Variable-Ratio
55
Relative success in recalling various items one day after hearing them listed in order is ...
Primary Effect
Iconic Memory
Implicit Memory
Recency
56
One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills, which tend to increase w/ age, is called..
Neutral Processing Speed
Intelligence Quotient
Crystallized Intelligence
Fluid Intelligence
57
Which researcher used nonsense syllables in human memory & discovered the forgetting curve?
Loftus
Ebbinghaus
James
Pavlov
58
The psychologist most closely associated with the study of operant conditioning was..
Ivan Pavlov
Ansel Adams
B.F. Skinner
Rachel Meier
59
Cannon-Bard Theory suggests...
An understanding on how we learn
No connection between the body and feelings
Feelings that are only positive
Simultaneous experience of body response & emotional feeling
60
An event that decreases the behavior that precedes it is a....
Reinforcement
Conditioned Stimulus
Punishment
Delayed Reinforcer
