Psych Final Exam

Which of these techniques would work best to change a behavior?

Orin's parents bought him a new toy truck for being nicer to his little sister.

Armandois making a class presentation. He wants to feature some bullet points about problem solving. His first slide should provide the following:

The initial stage, observational, ....

Mental representations of categories of objects, situations, or ideas that share common features are called:

concepts

Mereya and Cara are studying for their psychology final exam. Mereya tries to relate each key word to an example from her own life and Cara tries to memorize each key word by repeating it again and again. Who is likely to do better on their exam and why?

Mereya

____ is a mental activity associated with transforming information in an effort to make a decision, reach a solution, or form a belief.

cognition/thinking

When being photographed, Maria used to blink whenever the flash went off. Now, Maria starts blinking every time she is photographed, even before the camera's flash goes off. To Maria, the camera has become a(n) ___________.

conditioned stimulus

Julia vividly remembers the first time she met her boyfriend. This is an example of _____________ memory.

episodic

Vivienne had a vivid memory of being nearly kidnapped as a child. However, this never happened. This erroneous recall is an example of a(n): A. false memory. B. repressed memory. C. autobiographical memory. D. recovered memory.

false memory

Aaliyah remembers how to drive a car with a manual transmission, but when asked how she does it, she just says, "I don't know—it's automatic." This is an example of her: A. implicit memory. B. priming. C. semantic memory. D. episodic memory.

implicit memory

Memories of one's first pet and how to read reside in:

long-term memory

Which of the following is an example of positive reinforcement?

mom tells a joke and everyone laughs at it

Revoking a child's TV-watching privileges for repeatedly hitting a sibling is a form of ___________ if it stops the hitting.

negative punishment

Five-year old Hannah learns how to operate the tv remote by watching her mother use it. This is an example of______.

observational learning

Whenever Julia gets ready for school on time, she gets a chocolate from her mother. Hence Julia always tries to get ready on time. This an example of what kind of conditioning?

operant conditioning

Several friends "LIKE" Pearl's social media status. These "LIKES" are a form of ________, because they increase the likelihood that Pearl will post more updates in the future.

positive reinforcement

The tendency to preferentially recall items at the beginning of as list is known as what?

primacy effect

Keith studied for his sociology exam and then his psychology exam in the same evening. When it was time for him to take his sociology exam, all he could remember was the psychology material. Keith's forgetting is an example of what?

retroactive interference

_______ recall is the continuous recall of facts and events.

semantic

During a quiz, Nick is asked to state the capital city of Idaho. Which of the following memory types is most likely to aid him in retrieving the answer? A. Episodic memory B. Procedural memory C. Semantic memory D. Sensory memory

semantic memory

Rosa becomes anxious when she enters the examination room at the clinic before a blood test. She also squirms when she views injections on television. This paragraph illustrates:

stimulus generalization

Specific instances of a given category are represented at the ______ level of the concept hierarchy.

subordinate

The ______ level is the broadest or topmost level of the concept hierarchy.

superordinate

From the list that Jill made for a shopping trip to the grocery store, she could recall only the items in the beginning and in the end of a list. This is called:

the serial position effect

Diah says, "I know his name! He's married to that famous actress, and he was in all those action movies! His name begins with an A!...I just cannot remember it!" Diah is experiencing: A. divided attention. B. the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. C. proactive interference. D. repression.

the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

As Rodolfo works on a complex multiplication problem in his head, the numbers he is manipulating are in his _____ memory, and the multiplication tables he is drawing upon are in his _____ memory.

working memory, long-term memory