Unit 3 Canvas Quiz

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The processing of information into the memory system is called:

encoding.

You hear a familiar word in your native language and it is virtually impossible not to recognize the word's meaning. This best illustrates the importance of:

automatic processing.

According to psychologists, memory refers to all of the following measures of retention EXCEPT:

categorizing information.

The predictability of an association between a conditioned stimulus (CS) and an unconditioned stimulus (US) facilitates an organism's ability to expect or anticipate the occurrence of the unconditioned stimulus (US). This fact is most likely to be highlighted by a _____________ perspective

cognitive

After one chimpanzee sees a second chimp open a box that contains a food reward, the first animal opens a similar box with great speed. This best illustrates:

observational learning.

The three steps in memory information processing are:

encoding, storage, retrieval.

Jamaal has to make an important phone call. Unfortunately, his cell phone is not charged so he has to use his landline, which does not store phone numbers. To make the call, he has to get the number from his cell phone and remember it long enough to dial it on his landline. For this task, which memory is most important?

working memory

Children often learn to associate pushing a vending machine button with the delivery of a candy bar. This best illustrates the process underlying:

operant conditioning.

A fill-in-the-blank test is a good example of:

recall.

In Craik and Tulving's experiment, the deeper, ___________ processing yielded better memory than the shallow processing elicited by the other encoding techniques.

semantic

In Atkinson and Shiffrin's three-stage memory processing model we record information in which order?

sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory

In the movie Memento, the lead character has to write everything on his body and take notes. If he does not, he quickly forgets because an injury has left him without:

short-term memory.

Any event or situation that evokes a response is a:

stimulus.

All of the following are Pavlov's major contributions to the field of psychology EXCEPT:

that his methods demonstrated the importance of subjective judgments.

Imagine a study in which participants are shown 2,000 slides of houses and storefronts, each for only 10 seconds. Later, these same participants are shown 300 of the original slides paired with slides they have not seen before. According to research, these participants would be able to recognize ______ percent of the slides they had seen in the first round of viewing.

90

_____ is behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences.

Operant behavior.

Learning that certain events occur together is called:

associative learning.You hear a familiar word in your native language and it is virtually impossible not to recognize the word's meaning.

The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors is called:

learning

When Jane had leukemia as a child she had to undergo numerous bouts of chemotherapy. The chemotherapy always made her nauseous. As she went through a year of treatment, the waiting room started to make her nauseous. The waiting room became:

the conditioned stimulus.


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