psych final ONLY CHAPTERS 9-12

Austin can't remember Jack Smith's name because he wasn't paying attention when Jack was formally introduced Austin's poor memory is best explained in terms of

proactive interference

Adriana is addicted to heroin the room in which she usually takes hair when will likely become what for her drug cravings

primary reinforcer

Students often remember more information from a course that spans an entire semester then from a course that is completed in an intensive three weeks learning period This best illustrates the importance of

Distributed practice

Bayleigh had to get allergy shots weekly before administering them the doctor would put rubbing alcohol on her skin now Bailey becomes fearful every time she smells rubbing alcohol which concept best explains Bayleigh's fear

variable interval reinforcement

Iconic memory is to echonic memory as

Visual stimulation is to auditory stimulation

A dramatic rise in children's violent play immediately following a viewing of a violent television cartoon demonstrates the role of

Latent learning

and untrained dogs Salivation at the site of a food dish is a

Conditioned response

Free response: Memory can be improved by using a variety of techniques to describe five techniques and explain how they can help improve memory

Effortful processing, autonomic processing, chunking, mnemonics, spacing distributed practice, deep processing

Group one is asked to write down the names of the seven deadly sins group 2 is asked to look at a list of possible names of the sins and circle the correct seven why is group 2 more likely to recall the sins

Group twos list provides more retrieval cues making this recognition task easier for them

Monkeys raised in labs showed no fear towards snakes monkeys raised in the wild showed strong fear of snakes lab-raised monkeys shown a video of wild monkeys responding to snakes began acting fearfully after being exposed to a toy snake this illustrates the power of

Insight learning

Which of the following best describes explicit memories

Non-declarative

Noam Chomsky's View of language proposes that

People have inherent language acquisition device

When Loftus and Palmer asked observers of a filmed car accident how fast the vehicles were going when they "smashed" into each other, the observers developed memories of the accident that

Portrayed the event as more serious than It had actually been

Pavlov is to ...as skinner is to...

Positive reinforcement; negative reinforcement

After extensive exposure over long periods of time viewers can become unconcerned with the level of intensity of violence one later viewing a fire weather on television or in real life is change your best shows the effects of

Secondary reinforcement

While reading a novel at a rate of nearly 500 words per minute make an effort Leslie understands that almost every word the ability highlights the importance of

Source amnesia

And Watson's little Albert experiment Albert became fearful of three masks rabbits and dogs in addition to the original rat which concept this best illustrates

Stimulus discrimination

Which of the following could be considered an unconditioned response

Sweating in hot weather

Walking into your bedroom you think I need to get my backpack in the kitchen when you reach the kitchen you forget what you came there for as you return to your bedroom I suddenly remembered backpack! this sudden recall is best explained by

The miss information effect

Service dogs are often train to assist in such tasks as letting and their person know someone is at the door safely crossing the street or pushing buttons on the elevator which concept best describes how dogs were trained for these behaviors

Variable interval schedule of reinforcement

In Bandura's study with the Bobo doll the children in the group who saw a video of the model punished for being aggressive to the Bobo doll did not imitate the model they only imitated the model if the model has been given a reward for being aggressive these children obviously learned that behavior did not perform and this is called

Vicarious reinforcement

Which of the following is an example of observational learning

Young woman fear a clothing style similar to that of a popular singer

Unlike implicit memories, explicit memories are processed by the

hippocampus

A teenager was given a new phone as a gift and thought the old phone should be thrown away not realizing that the old phone could be used as a musical player to avoid taking up space on the New Phone this example illustrates

ill-structured problems

In class just before an exam Brandon is loud and cursing the teacher kicked Brandon out of the class as a result Brandon received an F for that exam Kaylee sees this and thinks yourself I am never going to do that this is an example of

prosocial behavior

Which of the following is an example of metacognition

solving a problem step-by-step in a methodical manner

Reyna's therapist reminds her of her father in a variety of ways as a result she has many of the same reactions to the therapist as she has to her father her reactions to her therapist best illustrate the concept of

spontaneous recovery

A teenager believes very strongly that a particular basketball player should not play on his favorite team for the course of the season the teenager focuses on every mistake turnover in the shot the player makes however the team does not notice How well the player passes helps the other teammates and without this teenagers behavior illustrates which of the following

the availability heuristic

After several attempts at escape with no success the victim in an abusive relationship gives up hope of escape and no longer tries the best explanation for this is

vicarious learning