Gen Psych 1101: Practice test Chapters 5 & 6. +

What is an example of negative punishment

Mary's bike is taken away from her when she says a bad word.

A person with tip of the tongue (TOT) has a problem with memory

retrieval

Which type of amnesia is a result of an injury to the brain where there is no memory of events that happened approximately one hour before the injury?

retrograde

"Consolidation" is the process that occurs when memories are

stored

In classical conditioning, the letter U stands for

unconditioned

What is a mnemonic?

a memorizing device

Learning, as defined by psychologist, always involves the process of ____.

change

When a dog learns to salivate to the sound of a bell, the salivation is called a

conditioned response

If a person becomes sick while eating at a particular restaurant, they may later have an ishy feeling in that restaurant. The restaurant is called a

conditioned stimuli

When an organism receives a reinforcer each time it displays a behavior, it is called

continuous reinforcement

The capital of Germany starts with the letter "B". This is an example of what type of retrieval?

cued memory

a person may have trouble forming new memories if they have damage to which part of the brain?

hippocampus

the Bobo doll experiment demonstrated learning through

observation

In classical conditioning the fastest learning occurs when there is a CS-US interval of about

1/2 second.

Who was the famous patient who lead to the modern concepts of memory storage in the brain?

H.M.

Conscious memory that includes events from you r past and facts that you have learned is _______ memory.

declarative

Which of these is subtype of declarative memory?

episodic

The unlearning process is known as

extinction

The consequences of a behavior are most important in ________ conditioning.

operant

What kind of classical conditioning involves reinforcers?

operant

In the serial position effect, items from the beginning of a list are easily recalled because of the _______ effect

primary

Which of these is a subtype of procedural memory?

priming

Edward Throndike studied cats in

puzzle boxes

Which term best describes rewarding successive approximations of a target behavior?

reinforcement

which of these is an example of procedural memory?

remembering how to play the piano