College Exam II - P

circadian rhythm

A biological cycle or rhythm that is approximately 24 hours long is called a(n) _______________ cycle

Punishment is known only to temporarily suppress or inhibit a behavior

A child is punished and temporarily stops his or her well-established bad behavior. However, the child soon goes back to acting badly. This is probably because _________.

sleep apnea

A sleep disorder that may require the use of a machine to force air gently into the nasal passages is called ________.

primacy effect

Adrianna is trying to memorize the names of the bones in the hand. She had gone through a list of them when her phone rang. After she gets off the phone, she is MOST likely to remember the first few bone names because of the ________.

procedural

After several years of not riding a bicycle, I went on a bike ride with my granddaughter. This skill is stored in __________ memory.

Bill's wife has negatively reinforced him for bathing the dog.

Bill hates to clean up after dinner. One night, he volunteers to bathe the dog before cleaning up. When he finishes with the dog and returns to the kitchen, his wife has cleaned everything up for him. Which of the following statements is most likely true?

altered states of consciousness

Daydreaming, meditation, intoxication, sleep, and hypnosis are all types of __________.

operant conditioning

Donnie tells a lie and is grounded. he does this several times, finally learning is associated with a consequence, what kind of learning is this?

conditioned response

Grace whistles while tickling Camilie with a feather. Eventually, Camilie starts to squirm and giggle every time Grace whistles, even when he is not being tickled. In this example, squirming and giggling is a(n) ________.

The puff of air serves as the unconditioned stimulus.

In a conditioning experiment, a sound is paired with a brief puff of air to the eye of the rabbit. After several pairings, the rabbit ultimately blinks its eye when it hears the sound. Which of the following is true?

Semantic

In the game show Jeopardy! contestants are tested on general information. The type of memory used to answer these kinds of questions is _________.

conditioned stimulus

John watson offered a live, white rat to little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head. The white rat served as the ________ in his study

chunking

Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N in no particular order. She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words INK and LATE. This tactic is called

Declarative memories

Memories for general facts and personal information are called

Encoding failure

Most people have difficulty actually recognizing the correct image of the lincoln penny. The most likely cause of this problem is

Bandura

Observational learning theory's foremost proponent is ____________, who conducted the famous Bobo doll experiment.

First day of school

Remembering ______ is a good example of episodic memory

Ivan Pavlov

The researcher responsible for discovering classical conditioning was __________

Lack of REM sleep produces psychological disorders

Which of the following statements about REM sleep is FALSE?

It is a process of getting stored memories back out into consciousness.

Which of the following statements is true about retrieval?

flashbulb memory

Your teacher can vividly recall where he was and what he was doing the day that John F Kennedy was assassinated although he cannot remember what he was doing the day before he was assassinated this is __________

learning

______ is any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice

insomnia

a sleep disorder characterized by difficulty in falling asleep or remaining asleep is called

her son must be motivated to learn how to do the laundry

cheryl is trying to teach her son to do the laundry by watching her. According to observational learning theory, to be effective what must occur?

as the awareness of our internal and external environment

consciousness is the ______

unlimited

it is thought that long term memory never can get filled up. The term used to describe the capacity of long term memory is _________

secoundary reinforcer

money or praise would be considered __________ reinforcers

7 (plus or minus two)

short term memory has a limited capacity. The magic number estimated that can be stored in short term memory is

go to bed at the same time each night

sleep research supports three helpful hints to avoid insomnia. which of the following statements is one of them

people observe the behavior, attitudes and consequences of others and then use that information to form their own actions.

what is the main idea of social learning theory

B.F. Skinner

which researcher discovered operant conditioning

???women need more sleep than men???

which statement is correct concerning how much sleep people need?