Psychology Quiz 3 Review
Which of the following statements about eyewitness testimony is correct?
Eyewitness testimony is vulnerable to the power of suggestion.
What is the tendency for an individual to have better memory for information that relates to oneself in comparison to material that has less personal relevance?
self-reference effect
How did Lashley develop the equipotentiality hypothesis?
He trained rats in the correct route through a maze, then deliberately damaged their brains and observed that this did not inhibit their progress through the maze.
Why do strong emotions trigger the formation of strong memories and weak emotional experiences form weak memories?
Strong emotional experiences can trigger the release of neurotransmitters and hormones that strengthen memory.
Which of the following experiments involves the use of social learning theory?
determining how long it takes a person to learn how to knit if she is only allowed to watch YouTube videos of people knitting
What type of memories do we consciously try to remember and recall?
explicit memories
In classical conditioning, the association that is learned is between
neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus
Which of the following experiments involves the use of operant conditioning?
rewarding a child for finishing his oatmeal mush and counting how many times the child needs to be rewarded before he finishes his oatmeal voluntarily
To maximize learning, a _ (blank) _ should be presented on a(n) _ (blank) _ schedule.
CS + UCS; continuous
Who experimented with rats to demonstrate that organisms can learn even if they do not receive immediate reinforcement?
Edward C. Tolman
Which of the following is an example of a variable ratio reinforcement schedule?
Joyce playing scratch-off lottery tickets
Classical and operant conditioning are forms of _ (blank) _ learning.
associational
Dymesha watches her older sister do headstands. Dymesha falls over when she attempts to do a headstand herself. She watches her older sister more carefully, and she notices that her sister leans backward slightly to complete her headstand. Dymesha is then able to do headstands herself. Which type of learning is this?
observational
Which of the following is a good example of semantic encoding?
remembering the colors of the rainbow with the acronym ROY-G-BIV
When experiencing this amnesia, you experience loss of memory for events that occurred prior to the trauma. When experiencing this amnesia, you cannot remember new information.
retrograde; anterograde
Which of the following is a good example of visual encoding?
thinking about a dog you want to adopt and having the image of the dog appear in your mind
