Dizziness, nausea, and disorientation may result if the information from the eyes conflicts a little too much with that from the vestibular organs, according to the _________ of motion sickness. |
a. sensory conflict theory |
Perception is the ___________. |
a. process by which people take all the sensations they experience at any given moment and interpret them in some meaningful fashion |
The tendency to interpret an object as always being the same physical dimensions, regardless of its distance from the viewer, is known as _____________. |
a. size constancy |
A piece of paper looks white in both the noonday sun and under moonlight, even though there is less light being reflected off the paper under moonlight. This form of perceptual constancy is called _________. |
c. brightness constancy |
Similarity is the tendency to perceive __________. |
b. things that look similar as being part of the same group |
Proximity is the tendency _________________. |
c. to perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping |
The tendency to perceive objects, or figures, on some background is known as ___________. |
a. figure-ground relationships |
Closure is the tendency _________________. |
b. to complete figures that are incomplete |
Continuity is the tendency _________________. |
d. to perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern |
Contiguity is the tendency to perceive _________. |
c. two things that happen close together in time as being related |
An illusion ________________. |
c. is a perception that does not correspond to reality |
__________ is any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice. |
a. Learning |
Learning is said to be a relatively permanent change in behavior because ________. |
c. it is thought that when learning occurs some part of the brain physically changes |
As an infant, Stephanie received many penicillin injections from the doctor. When she later saw a photographer in a white coat that was similar to the doctor’s coat, she started to cry. This is an example of _______________. |
c. classical conditioning |
Normally, when food is placed in the mouth of any animal, the salivary glands start releasing saliva to help with chewing and digestion. In terms of Pavlov’s analysis of learning, salivation would be referred to as ________. |
a. an unconditioned response |
Learning to make a reflex response to a stimulus other than to the original, natural stimulus is called ________________. |
a. classical conditioning |
The abbreviation UCR stands for _____________. |
d. unconditioned response |
Alan always turns the aquarium light on before putting fish food into the tank. After a while he notices that the fish swim to the top to look for the food as soon as he turns on the light. In this example, the______ is the unconditioned stimulus. |
d. fish food |
Miranda notices that her cat salivates as soon as her cat hears the sound of the electric can opener. In this example, the sound of the can opener is the ______________. |
c. conditioned stimulus |
The abbreviation CS stands for _____________. |
a. conditioned stimulus |
You decide that you are going to condition your dog to salivate to the sound of a bell. You give the dog a biscuit, and then a second later you ring the bell. You do this several times, but no conditioning seems to occur. This is probably because ______. |
b. the bell should have been sounded before the dog ate the biscuit |
After Little Albert acquired a conditioned fear of rats, Watson wanted to see how he would react to a white rabbit, cotton wool, and a Santa Claus mask. He was studying whether or not _________ had occurred. |
d. stimulus generalization |
Which of the following processes occur in both operant conditioning and classical conditioning? |
d. all of these |
After Pavlov’s dogs became conditioned to salivate at the sound of the bell, he experimented with ringing the bell and then failing to present the dogs with any food right away. Soon they stopped salivating to the sound of the bell. This represents the process called ___________________. |
c. extinction |
The reappearance of a learned response after extinction has occurred is called ______. |
c. spontaneous recovery |
The learning of phobias is a very good example of which certain type of classical conditioning? |
d. conditioned emotional response |
It is even possible to become classically conditioned by simply watching someone else respond to a stimulus in a process called ________________. |
a. vicarious conditioning |
28. An important example of conditioned taste aversions might be ____________. |
c. Both of these are examples of taste aversions. |
29. Conditioned taste aversions are an example of something called __________. |
a. biological preparedness |
30. The kind of learning that applies to voluntary behavior is called __________________. |
a. operant conditioning |
31. Thorndike was known for his work with ______. |
b. a puzzle box |
32. Which of the following is NOT an example of operant behavior? |
c. a dog blinking its eyes after a flash of light is presented |
33. "If a response is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated. If a response is followed by an unpleasant consequence, it will tend not to be repeated." This is a statement of ________________. |
c. Thorndike’s Law of Effect |
34. A reinforcer is a consequence that _____________________ a behavior, while a punisher is a consequence that _____________________ a behavior. |
d. strengthens; weakens |
35. A _____________________ reinforcer is any reward that satisfies a basic, biological need, such a hunger, thirst, or touch. |
a. primary |
36. ________ is an example of a primary reinforcer, whereas ________ is an example of a secondary reinforcer. |
a. A cupcake; a certificate of achievement given to a student |
37. Under what circumstances will a reinforcer make the target response more likely to occur again? |
d. regardless of whether it is a positive or negative reinforcer, a reinforcer makes a response more likely to occur. |
38. A negative reinforcer is a stimulus that is ___________ and, thus, ________ the probability of a response. |
a. removed; increases |
39. What has occurred when there is a decrease in the likelihood or rate of a target response? |
a. punishment |
40. When a stimulus is removed from a person or animal resulting in a decrease in the probability of response, it is known as __________. |
b. punishment by removal |
41. Which of the following statements is true regarding punishment? |
d. All of these statements are true. |
42. Why does fear caused by punishment make the punishment ineffective in changing behavior? |
c. Fear interferes with the child’s ability to learn from the punishment. |
43. Olivia is punished for spilling her cereal. Her parents give her a spanking and send her to her room where she cries. Later, her puppy makes a mess on the floor. Olivia kicks her puppy and puts it out in the yard where it whines sadly. Which of the following statements explains her behavior toward the puppy? |
c. Olivia is modeling the aggressive behavior her parents demonstrated to her. |
44. Mary’s parents want her to put her books in her bookcase. At first, they praise her for putting the books together in one pile. Then they praise her for getting the books on the same side of the room as the bookcase. When she gets the books on top of the bookcase, she gets praise. Finally, her parents praise her when she puts her books in the bookcase. This is an example of ____________. |
d. shaping |
45. What kind of reinforcement is used if Sally’s parents give her $10 every time she accumulates six As on her tests? |
d. partial reinforcement |
46. Which of the following statements is true about operant conditioning? |
c. Partial reinforcement leads to behaviors that will persist longer than behavior learned through continuous reinforcement. |
47. When the number of responses is important to a schedule of reinforcement, that schedule is called a _____________ schedule. |
a. ratio |
48. A school issues tokens to the children for good behavior. This issue of a token is an example of ___________. |
d. behavior modification |
In order to get her 2nd grade students to memorize the poems written on the chalkboard, Mrs. Thyberg gives the students stickers for each poem they can recite from memory. After earning 5 stickers, a student gets to pick a prize out of the goody box. Mrs. Thyberg is using (a) __________ to modify the children’s behaviors. |
a. token economy |
50. Which of the following statements is true about behavior modification? |
a. It involves the process of shaping. |
51. The "aha!" experience is known as ________________. |
b. insight learning |
A researcher places dogs in a cage with metal bars on the floor. The dogs are randomly given electric shocks and can do nothing to prevent them or stop them. Later, the same dogs are placed in a cage where they can escape the shocks by jumping over a low hurdle. When the shocks are given, the dogs do not even try to escape. They just sit and cower. This is an example of ____________. |
a. learned helplessness |
53. Which type of learning occurs when we observe how other people act? |
d. observational learning |
Memory is defined as an active system that consists of three processes. They are _________. |
a. receiving information from the senses, organizing and storing the information, and retrieving the information from storage |
____________ is defined as an active system that receives information from the senses, organizes and alters information as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage. |
d. Memory |
56. Shaquin finished his term paper and handed it in. As he walked out of the classroom, he realized that there were a few more things he should have included in the paper. Shaquin’s problem is the __________ component of memory. |
c. retrieval |
57. The first step in the memory process is _____________ information in a form that the memory system can use. |
a. encoding |
58. _____________ is retention of memory for some period of time. |
b. Storage |
59. Which of the following statements is true about retrieval? |
b. It is a process of getting stored memories back out into consciousness. |
60. The processes of encoding, storage, and retrieval are seen as part of the ______ model of memory. |
a. information processing |
61. According to the levels-of-processing model of memory, we are most likely to remember information that we process at a _________ level. |
a. deeper |
62. In the _________________ model, memory is seen as a simultaneous process, with the creation and storage of memories taking place across a series of networks "stretched" across the brain. |
b. parallel distributed processing |
63. Which model of memory is most similar in conceptualization to the way computers function? |
c. information-processing model |
64. The three parts of the information-processing model of memory are ____________. |
a. sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory |
65. Which memory system provides us with a very brief representation of all the stimuli present at a particular moment? |
b. sensory memory |
66. You are out for a drive with the family and are lucky enough to get a window seat. The rapidly passing scenery you see out the window is first stored in _____________. |
b. iconic memory |
A time machine provides you the opportunity to interview Sigmund Freud. During the interview, Freud admits that he never wanted to attend medical school. When you ask him how he made it through, he says, "I had eidetic imagery." What does he mean by that? |
b. He had a photographic memory, which helped him remember the material he had to learn. |
68. Information gets from sensory memory to short-term memory through the process of _____. |
d. selective attention |
69. Which memory system is the one that is a working, active system that processes the information within it? |
b. short-term memory |
70. What "magic number" did Miller find to be the capacity of short-term memory? |
c. 7 |
71. Bits of information are combined into meaningful units so that more information can be held in short-term memory through the process of ______. |
a. chunking |
72. Maintenance rehearsal is defined as _______. |
d. repeating some bit of information over and over in one’s head in order to maintain it in short-term memory |
73. Repeating items over and over in order to aid memory is known as ______ rehearsal. |
d. maintenance |
74. It is thought that long-term memory never can get filled up. The term used to describe the capacity of long-term memory is ____________. |
d. unlimited |
_____ rehearsal results in a more lasting memory and promotes the transfer of information to long-term memory compared to ______ rehearsal. |
c. Elaborative; maintenance |
76. The portion of memory that is more or less permanent is called ______. |
d. long-term memory |
77. Which type of long-term memory is most difficult to bring into conscious awareness? |
b. procedural memories |
78. Memories for general facts and personal information are called _________. |
c. declarative memories |
79. General knowledge, language, and concepts are seen as parts of ___________. |
d. semantic memory |
80. Personal facts and memories of one’s personal history are parts of ___________. |
a. episodic memory |
81. In the semantic network model of memory, concepts that are related in meaning __________. |
c. are stored physically closer to each other than concepts that are not highly related |
82. Someone asks you to name the twenty-second president of the United States, but you can’t remember. To aid your memory, the person then tells you that the president’s name is the same as that of a large city on Lake Erie. Upon hearing the hint, you instantly realize that Grover Cleveland is the answer. In this situation, the hint acted as a(n) ______. |
d. retrieval cue |
83. Which of the following statements is true of retrieval cues? |
a. They are important in helping us remember items stored in long‑term memory. |
84. Encoding specificity refers to _____________. |
a. using physical surroundings or emotions as retrieval cues for specific memories |
85. Which of the following is an example of a test using recall? |
d. All of these are examples that use recall. |
86. When the sound of the word is the aspect that cannot be retrieved, leaving only the feeling of knowing the word without the ability to pronounce it, this is known as _________. |
d. the tip-of-the-tongue effect |
87. When given a list of items to remember, you are more likely to remember _______. |
d. the items at the beginning and at the end more than those in the middle of the list |
88. When given a list of items to remember, people tend to do better at recalling the first items on the list than the middle of the list. This is known as the ______. |
d. primacy effect |
89. When given a list of items to remember, people tend to do better at recalling the last items on the list. This is known as the ______. |
c. recency effect |
90. Examples of tests that use recognition are _____________. |
d. both multiple choice and matching |
91. Flashbulb memories ______. |
b. usually concern events that are emotionally charged |
92. As memories get older, they are most likely ____________________. |
d. to become changed or altered in some fashion |
93. What type of stimuli did Hermann Ebbinghaus use in his memory experiments? |
d. nonsense syllables |
94. Most people have difficulty actually recognizing the correct image of the Lincoln penny. The most likely cause of this problem is _______________. |
c. encoding failure |
95. Proactive interference as used in the study of memory refers to when _____________. |
a. older information already in memory interferes with the retrieval of newer information |
96. Forgetting in long-term memory is most likely due to _____________. |
a. interference from other information |
97. Consciousness is the ________________. |
b. awareness of ourselves and the environment |
98. The state we are in when we are awake and reasonably alert is called ______. |
b. waking consciousness |
99. Mental activities that differ noticeably from normal waking consciousness are known as ________. |
d. altered states of consciousness |
100. What aspect of circadian rhythms might explain why we tend to feel so tired at night? |
d. There is an organ in the brain sensitive to light changes, which then affects our sleepiness. |
101. A biological cycle, or rhythm, that is approximately 24 hours long is called a(n) _____ cycle. |
b. circadian |
102. Which statement is correct concerning how much sleep people need? |
c. Most people need between 7 and 8 hours of sleep |
103. What term do sleep researchers use to designate stages 1-4 of sleep? |
b. Non-REM sleep |
104. Which of the following is CORRECT concerning REM deprivation? |
c. REM deprivation leads to increased amounts of REM sleep on subsequent nights of sleep. |
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