Psychology: missed practice quiz

A researcher studies learning in rats by allowing them access to pellets and water every five minutes. This reinforcement schedule is known as _______________.

fixed-interval

Internet search results often produce many links to concepts that are not specifically about the original topic but are related in some way. As such, the Internet is a good analogy for which type of memory system?

long-term memory

Internet search results often produce many links to concepts that are not specifically about the original topic but are related in some way. As such, the Internet is a good analogy for which type of memory system?

long-term memory

The highest motive that can be achieved, according to Abraham Maslow, is __________.

self-transcendence

_________ attempted to break conscious experience down into objective sensations, such as sight or taste, and subjective feelings, such as emotional responses, and mental images such as memories or dreams.

structuralism

When Helen takes her son Jack with her to the grocery store, she will sometimes purchase a special treat for him if he asks nicely. However, she does not do this every time. In fact, Helen has discovered that she purchases Jack a treat, on average, every fourth trip--sometimes more frequently and sometimes less. Which reinforcement schedule has Helen unwittingly been using?

variable-ratio

Which of the following statements would most likely be made by a functionalist?

Adaptive behavior patterns are learned and maintained.

Dreams and nightmares occur primarily in which stage of the sleep process?

REM

This German professor offered the first courses in psychology, created the first psychological laboratory for experiments, and produced the first psychology journal.

Wilhelm Wundt

What theory argues that dreams have no psychological meaning, but they are simply the result of normal neural functioning?

activation-synthesis theory

_____ is a term that indicates when an individual experiences simultaneous multiple disorders.

comorbidity

Neuroscientific evidence suggests that procedural memories are stored in the _________.

cerebellum

Patients undergoing chemotherapy often become nauseous and may even vomit because of the sights and sounds in the environment around where they receive their treatments. This is best explained by _______________.

classical conditioning

Jonathan works as a licensed counselor. He strongly believes in an individual's innate ability for self-fulfillment, self-awareness, and decision making. He works on the principle that people are free to choose their own pathways and are responsible for their own choices. Jon follows the _____ perspective.

humanistic

In 1932, researchers wanted to study the effects of syphilis (a sexually transmitted disease with no known cure at the time) on black males. Participants who volunteered for the study were offered free medical care, meals while participating, and burial insurance in exchange for their participation under the guise of a study on long term health measures for African-American males. Of the 600 participants more than half tested positive for syphilis, and these men formed the experimental group. The men who did not test positive for the disease were the control group. The men who had the disease were never informed that they had the disease, and they were never treated for the disease, even though a treatment became available during the course of the study. This study is an example of which type of study?

longitudinal study

Linking neutral stimuli as signals to unlearned associations is a key aspect of _______________.

operant conditioning

Your history instructor asks you to name the forty-third president of the United States. At first you can't remember so she tells you that he was the son of the forty-first president. Then you remember that it was George W. Bush. Her hint is called a(n) __________.

retrieval cue