ap psych 3

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

Operant behavior.

In his experiments, Pavlov found that spontaneous recovery often occurred after a conditioned response was extinguished if:

after a few hours without the food (US), the tone (CS) was presented again.

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. This best illustrates the importance of:

automatic processing.

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

categorizing information.

By directly experiencing a thunderstorm, we learn that a flash of lightning signals an impending crash of thunder. This best illustrates:

classical conditioning.

Whenever Aiden opens his refrigerator to get something to eat, he also gives his dog some food. Now, when Aiden opens the refrigerator door his dog begins to drool. This best illustrates:

classical conditioning.

Professor Wallace studies memory in people who have had strokes. Professor Hansen studies people who claim to have clear memories of events that happened over three decades ago. Such research on the extremes of memory:

helps us to understand how memory works.

Henry decided to organize what he is studying by paying attention to chapter outlines, headings, objectives, learning outcomes, and test questions. His process best illustrates the use of:

hierarchical organization.

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

learning

This is a relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of your memory system.

long-term 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.

Seals in an aquarium will repeat certain behaviors, such as slapping and barking, that prompt people to toss them a herring. This best illustrates:

operant conditioning.

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

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.

The three steps in memory information processing are:

encoding, storage, retrieval.

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.

In classical conditioning, what is the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus (US), such as salivation, when food is in the mouth?

unconditioned response (UR)