Psych test 2 chap 5-8

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According to noam chomsky blank is an underlying set of rules for turning ideas into sentences

A universal grammar

How long can information be stored in short term memory without being rehearsed

About 12 seconds

Tiffany asks her son to recognize groups of letters such as SKOSCODG I am a L and a oh Into words in this scenario Tiffany is using blank of the words socks dog mail and door

Anagrams

When a rats Ventromedial nucleus is destroyed the rat will

Begin to eat uncontrollably

In black people receive reinforcement in the form of information

Biofeedback

People learning to admit alpha waves through Feedback from an electroencephalograph is an example of

Biofeedback training

People seem to be ready to fear thunder threatening faces sharp objects darkness and heights according to Arne ohman and Susan mineka this is referred to as

Biological preparedness

In relation to the question of what determines intelligence most psychologists agree that

Both hereditary and environments are important in determining intelligence

Vomiting binge eating fasting the use of laxatives and engaging in prolongs exercise regimens are potentially could characteristics of

Bulimia nervosa

Which of the following statements is true of the native his theory of language development

Children bring neurological pre-wiring to language learning

In blank thought is limited to present the facts and the problem solver narrows his or her thinking to find the best solution

Convergent thinking

Diana has the ability to easily cope with unexpected and challenging situations she generate solutions to problems by relating unexpected stimulations to familiar situations in this scenario Dana is exhibiting

Creative intelligence

Blank is the quality of language that permits one to communicate information about objects and events in another time and place

Displacement

Which of the following is a prototype of the category mammal

Dog

During blank female rats respond to males by hopping wiggling their ears and arching their backs with their tails to one side that's enabling miles to Penetrate them

Estrus

Which of the following is the sequence of phases for the sexual response cycle

Excitement plateau orgasmic resolution

Eli is a school student her teachers appreciation motivates her to study well she also aims to impress her teacher and parents by getting into a good university after she graduates from high school you guys performing schools seem to be met through

Extrinsic rewards

Identify a true statement about problem-solving

Heuristics are often based on strategies that worked in the past

Johnny 😌 has always feared going to the dentist as he associated these visits with pain after he repeated visits to the dentist Johnny 😌 also developed the fear of bright lights and he had started to associate with the dentist Kevin in the given scenario the development of Johnny 😌's fear of bright lights is due to

Higher order conditioning

According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs what must be developed immediately prior to esteem needs

Love and belongingness

Brown and McNeil's experiment on the tip of the tongue phenomenon revealed that

Memory storage systems of humans are indexed according to both visual and audio cues

According to Bright and boatyard concerning obesity which of the following statements is inaccurate

Obesity increases by level of education

Blank is the quality of language in which words are used as symbols for objects events or ideas

Semanticity

Justin is teaching young children to play soccer each time they make a good move he praises them in this scenario Justin is treating the children by

Shaping

When watching a horror movie Mark was frightened by a scene he reacted by dropping a glass of soda that he was holding this reaction is the link to the

Sympathetic nervous system

Why we go clubbing and drink alcohol can best be explained by

The drive reduction theory

The influence of wording work the context in which information is presented on decision making is known as

The framing affect

In Robert rescorlas experiment what happened to the group of dogs to whom Ashok was consistently presented after a tone

The group of dogs learn to show a fear response at the sound of the tone

Blank holds that any factors which make up children's nature cause children to attend to and acquire language in certain ways

The native is the theory of language development

In the context of reinforcement schedules Commuter trains that arrive at platforms at specific times are on a

Fixed interval schedule

With a blank an organisms response rate falls off after each reinforcement and then picks up again as the time when reinforcement will occur approaches

Fixed interval schedule

Danielle at 60 boy takes an IQ test the results of the test show that he is a functioning intellectually like the average eight-year-old this scenario Daniel has a blank of eight

Mental age

Which of the following statements is true of telegraphic speech

It is brief but grammatically correct

In the context of the nativist approach to language development the blank prepares the nervous system to learn grammar

Language acquisition device

After telling the police officer everything she could recall about when she went into a bank Lucas got to the point that he no longer could recall any more information at that point Lucas was most likely experiencing

Retrieval cue Failure🙌😘

The blank is the division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates glands in activities such as heartbeat and respiration

Autonomic Nervous System

A blank is a stimulus or group of stimuli that are perceived as a discrete piece of information

Chunk

In the context of processes of memory the first stage of information processing

Encode stimuli so that one can place them in memory

According to your text true language is distinguished from the communication systems of lower animals by all of the following except

Holophrase

Selecting just a few aspects of all the environmental information that's being registered in a process that occurs in

Sensory memory

Identify a true statement about the types of reinforcers

The short term consequences of behavior often provide more of an incentive then the long-term consequences

A lawyer most likely has

analytical intelligence

In a blank a specific amount of time must elapsed between the previous and subsequent times that reinforcement is available

fixed interval schedule

The blank is the view that language structures the way that we view the world

linguistic relativity hypothesis

When Angelica studies her college classes she actively thinks about the new information thinks about it's applications and tries to generate her own examples based on her experiences using levels of processing terminology Angelica is

Processing the information at a deep level so that it is more likely to be encoded into long-term memory

Christopher knows a lot of facts about the earth he knows that the circumference of the earth is 40,030km even though he did not personally measure the circumference of the earth this knowledge is referred to as

Semantic memory

According to your text which of the following does not help regulate our hunger

Hippo campus

Blank are meeting list sets of two Constance with a vowel sandwiched in between that are used to study memory

Nonsense syllables

In the context of fear reduction techniques behavior therapist frequently prefer blank in which the client is gradually exposed to fear evoking stimuli under circumstances in which he or she remains relax

Systematic desensitization

Which of the following is a biological factor responsible for obesity

A high fat to muscle ratio

The critical factor in state dependent retrieval is the influence of

A person's biological state at the time of studying

Pansy is romantically and sexually attracted to both males and females she is most likely to be

Bisexual

NEC Tomic experiment some rats were trained to run through Macy's for standard food goes well other rats were allowed to explore the mazes for 10 days without food bowls or other rewards later when food rewards were placed in a box at the far end of the maze the previously unrewarded rats reached the food box as quickly as the rewarded right after only one or two trials this experiment demonstrated that the rats had the ability to form blank of their surroundings

Cognitive maps

The blank is the view that learning occurs when stimuli provide information about the likelihood of the occurrence of other stimuli

Cognitive theory

Cynthia had an intense fear of cats her psychologist repeatedly paired her love for classical music with the gradual exposure to Cynthia to a cat until her fear of cats was cured in this scenario Cynthias fear was cured using

Counter conditioning

The Atkinson shiffrin model of stages of memory intends to

Determine whether and for how long information is retained memory

Blank is the loss of memory of personal information that is thought to stem from psychological conflict or trauma

Dissociative amnesia

Ava and Rose who have been married for 13 years are discussing the events that led to their very first date rose distinctively remember is giving Abe her telephone number at a party for Abraham is certain that he got her number from her best friend Linda even Rose have different blank of the event

Episodic memories

Layla is young son has accidentally locked him self in the room Layla is trying to figure out how to unlock the door unfortunately she doesn't realize that her Butler knife could be used to unlock the door this illustrates

Functional fixedness

Albert was once awoken from his sleep by a white rat that fell on him following the incident he began feeling all far away I have a objects in this scenario Alberts fear of a furry white objects are due to

Generalization

In Pavlov's experiment he could dish and his dog to salary when it was shown a circle later the dogs elevated when it was sold and they're closed geometric figures including squares through this experiment Pavlovs demonstrated

Generalization

In the context of organization in long-term memory a blank is an arrangement of items into groups or classes according to common or distinct features

Hierarchy

In order to form new memories you must have a fully functioning

Hippo campus

Carol walked into a Moroccan restaurant and was surprised that she did not see any utensils her surprise stems from the fact that she has never eaten without utensils before this is an example of

Icon

The flow of visual information seems smooth and continuous because of blank memory which can hold visual stimuli for up to a second

Iconic

Positive reinforcement blank the probability of a behavior occurring and negative reinforcement blank the probability of her behavior occurring

Increases and Decreases

In the context of memory and forgetting one of the cognitive explanations for infantile amnesia states that

Infants do not make reliable use of language to symbolize or classify events

Motives are

Inferred from behavior

In the context of behavior therapy methods which of the following statements is true of flooding

It involves continuous exposure to fear evoking stimuli

Which of the following is true about maintenance rehearsal

It involves mentally repeating a list or saying the information to oneself

Which of the following is true about anterograde amnesia

It is the failure to remember the events that occurred after a physical trauma.

Which of the following statements is true about retroactive interference

It is the interference of new learning with the ability to retrieve material learned previously

Which of the following statements is true of shaping

It reinforces progressive steps toward behavioral goal

AcCording to cognitive theorists blank is the process by which organisms make relatively permanent changes in the way that they represent the environment because of experience

Learning

According to William Masters and Virginia Johnson

Men and women have similar biological responses to sexual stimulation

In the terminology of observational learning a person who engages in a response that is imitated is a

Model

Which of the following statements is true of prospective memory

Moods and attitudes affects prospective memory

In the context of the sexual response cycle blank is muscle tension which causes grimaces spasms in the hands and feet and the spasms of an orgasm

Myotonia

In the context of woman which of the following is true of androgens

Ovaries produce androgens in women

The blank is the branch of the autonomic nervous system that is most active during processes that spend body energy from stored reserves

Parasympathetic nervous system

Which of the following is not a cognitive perspective on motivation

People strive to become what they are capable of being

Stacy a kindergarten teacher is teaching her students about mammals she tells the students that fishes and birds are not mammals in this scenario Stacy is using blank of the mammalconcept

Positive instances

London learn how to play racquetball prior to learning how to play tennis because of this her tennis game has never been that good the difficulty stems from

Proactive interference

Which of the following is true of drives

Psychological needs for approval achievement and belonging give rise to drives

In the context of hunger blank is the State of being satisfied

Satiety

General knowledge is referred to as

Semantic memory

When we look at a visual stimulus our impressions of it may seem fluid enough this is because

Sensory memory briefly holds precptions making them seem connected

In the context of problem-solving blank involves handling one in element of the problem at a time

Serial processing

Blank believes the tension motivate us to behave in ways that restore us to a resting state

Sigmund Freud

Blank is the reoccurrence of an extinguished response as a function of the passage of time

Spontaneous recovery

In the context of long-term memory which of the following statements is true of flashbulb memory

Stimuli that stand out are preserved in detail in a person's long-term memory.

Blank is a classical conditioning procedure in which previously neutral stimulus comes to lick the response brought back and forth by a conditioned stimulus by being paired repeatedly with that condition stimulus

Systematic desensitization

In the context of the theories of intelligence which of the following statements is true of creative people

They appreciate art and music

The blank is the feeling that information is stored in memory although it cannot be readily retrieved

Tip of the tongue phenomenon

Every morning Jacqueline's parents watch for the school bus to arrive they repeatedly are looking out the window to see if the bus has her arrived the schedule is a

Variable interval schedule

Which of the following statements is true in the context of the facts of violent video games

Violent video games are connected with an increase in juvenile delinquency

Which of the following is true of Satiety

We get signals of Satiety from the digestive tract

In a study by Elizabeth Loftus subjects watched a film of an automobile accident then answered ascended the sequence of questions including one asking them to estimate the speed of the cars what factor affecting the subjects estimate of how fast the cars in the film were traveling

Whether the words used in the question suggested a greater speed's

Hollywood spank her daughter when she would chew food with her mouth open after several instances of poor table manners her daughter starts avoiding the kitchen table in this example the table is a blank

conditioned stimulus

In the context of reinforcement schedules if you were only paid for every individual webpage that you create you are being paid on a

fixed interval schedule


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