Griggs Welch Midterm Review B

To utilize a means–end analysis, each problem is broken into a series of _____ that are solved in succession.

Sydney is unable to form new memories about her activities following her accident. Her doctor immediately suspects that

A(n) _____ response is a reflex that is automatically elicited by an unconditioned stimulus.

_____ are techniques that are useful in improving memory performance, especially memory for item lists.

If Samantha develops a complete “cognitive map” of her campus, she will be:

Which example BEST shows how “chunking” benefits memory performance?

The three stages of memory in the three-stage model are:

A HS dropout is a successful business owner. He may have high _ intelligence (Triarchy Theory)

In the 2-4-6 task, participants demonstrate ______ in testing their hypotheses.

12 yr old Jimmy is sure his favorite basketball player is “due” to make his next free throw because he missed his last 3

Based on the “Bobo doll” experiments, children are MOST likely to produce aggressive behavior when they watch a model

The “nine-circle” problem is difficult to solve because:

When working with someone with a brain injury, routines and tasks should be as varied as possible.

Learning different terms in different parts of a grocery store is an example of

I get violently ill several hours after eating poorly stored potato salad thereafter. This best illustrates:

An Alzheimer's patient must be given as much say in their care as possible. 

The mood-congruence effect may hinder recovery from depression because depressed people:

The three basic processes in the human memory system are:

A multiple-choice test is classified as a _____ test because retrieval cues _____ present.

Which of the following techniques will be LEAST helpful to you as you study material for his next psychology exam?

Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek evidence that:

Often when a person has a head injury, the same old behaviors are present, but in an intensified, exaggerated form.

List 5 ways to honor the elderly.

Which of Gardner's “Eight Intelligences” is needed by a ballet dancer learning a complicated dance

Operant conditioning refers to the process of learning to:

The _____ before conditioning becomes the conditioned stimulus (CS) after conditioning occurs.

_____ is demonstrated when one fails to create a new interpretation of a problem.

Any stimulus that decreases the probability that a behavior will be repeated is _____.

When a stimulus that is similar to a previously (CS) produces the (CR), stimulus _ has occured

Another name for observational learning is:

_ is the extent test scores are consistent; _____ is the extent to which a test measures what it claims to measure

The tendency to think of only the most typical uses of objects in a problem setting is called ______.

Because he is paid $75 for each house he cleans, Devin's work as a cleaner is reinforced on a _____ schedule.

The most well known form of dementia is

When a person with a head injury engages in a power struggle with you, it is important for you to win.

List 3 ways you could help or learn from someone with Alzheimer's.

Believers in the paranormal have a hard time being persuaded that paranormal phenomena are not scientifically credible

Using the memory span task, researchers found that MOST people can remember:

An algorithm _ produces the correct answer to a problem. Compared to a heuristic, an algorithm _ to produce an answer

When a person has Alzheimer's, old family problems are likely to emerge.

In operant conditioning, any stimulus that increases the probability that a behavior will be repeated is _____.

_____ techniques have been used to replace undesirable behaviors with more desirable behaviors in tasks ...

People with Alzheimer's cannot have hallucinations. 

Never allow brain injury to be an excuse for sinful behavior.

Classical conditioning is learning that one stimulus reliably _____ of another stimulus.