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Psych Final
Chapt 5 and 7
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/07/2012

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How to start a lawn mower engine and how to change the oil in a car are examples of memories stored in?
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procedural memory
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you read a fill in the blank question and you know you know it. but then your mind goes blank and its fustrating. what is this called?
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tip-of-the-tongue
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after being challened to name all 50 states, you begin to recall them by thinking of states that begin with A and proceeding though the alphabet. what apporach are you using?
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grouping
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what major problem with eyewitness testimony has elizabeth loftus uncovered/
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memories of details can be altered while in short term
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which person would habe the greatest need to rely on procedural memory
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ron, a carpet installer
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the univ. registrar announced that final exams will not be scheduled in the same rooms where classes met, which psychological concept would you cite in support of an argument to have finals given in the same room
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encoding specificity
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how long does info remain in short tem memory if it is not rehearsed
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10-20 seconds
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according to atkinson stages of memory model, what happens when we actively think about something that we have previously learned
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the memory is recalled from LTM and is placed in STM
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when learning a list of words people do best when they
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generate rhymes for the word
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which method is invilved when a grade school teacher asks her students to list the 50 states in the US in no particular order
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free recall
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the basic first day day of class is called a (syllabus...)
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schema
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psychologist on the learning channel says its helpful to know the major explanations for forgetting. which of these will be at the top of her list of these factors
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interference
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which techniquie is widely used by therapists to help clients recover lost childhood memories
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hynosis
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you looked up a friends address for a letter you wrote. suddenly the phone rigns-wrong number. eben though you were interrupted for only a few seconds youve forgtten the address which memory system failed
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short term
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a soldier was injured when a motor exploded in front of him he is not able to recall info from year ago. what is this called
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retroactive amnesia
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what is the most important question for the fergus craik and lockhard model of memory
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how much can we store in memory
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whta did researchers find about the memories of people during WWII
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memories were uite accurate especially among memebrs of the resistance
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which of these could be an analogy for understanding eidetic imagery
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a digital photograph
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info selected from sensory memory is transfered to
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short term
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ann used the follwing to remember 5 nuerttrans "sand appears near great dunes" what technique
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acronyms
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procedural memory
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knowing how to turn on you riding lawnmower
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which stage of info processing is used when we bring memory into consciousness
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retrieval
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what are the components of the info processing model, in order
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encoding
storage
retrieval
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according to Craik and Lockhart, we are most likely to remember info that we proccess at what level
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deep
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what are the related concepts that form semantic networks called
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nodes
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flashbulb memories
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memories are not as accurate emotions may lead to twisted storage
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why did hermann ebbinghaus use nonsense syllables as stimuli in his memory research
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stimuli had no previous associations
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what type of stimuli did hermann ebbinghaus use in memory research
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nonsense syllable
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example of someone most likely to be involved in a case in hich memories of past child abuse recalled later in life
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20 year old uses therapy and hypnosis
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more than a hundred years ago, a participant was invited to take part in research the researcher was trying to replicate the work of hermann ebbinghaus what will he ask the participant to do
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isten to me, BEC DAX FER KOJ, now repeat.
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ted is anxious rapid pulse and vivid hallucination detoxing from alch what is he suffering from
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delirium tremens
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agitated dysphoria is a condition produced by withdrawal from
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alcohol
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large doses of amphetemine can cause reactions that are similar to
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paranoid schizophrenia
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alcohols effect on which organ usually leads to uncharacteristic behavior
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brain
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what are some of the brain areas with the greatest concentration of ccannabinoid receptors
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cerebellum, basal ganglia hippocampus
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which drug tends to lea to a relaxed euphoria, sedation, and reduced apprehension
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amphetamine
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side effects of lithium
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blurred visions, dry mouth, weight gain
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what might lead to experimental neuroses
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a circle of a certain size with food and slowly changing the size of the cirlcle
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major dif between FR and VR schedules of reinforcement
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pauses tend to occur on FR not VR sched
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paying a lil bro every 3 weeks instead of weekly
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partial reinforcement.
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partial reinforcement effect
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extinctin after partial reinforcement is more difficult
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which is the correct sequence of events in classical conditioning
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CS-ucs-ucr....cr-cr
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what do we call learning that has taken place but is not demonstrated
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latent learning
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idea that certain events seem to occur together natrally and others not
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cue to consequence learning
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a positive reinforcer is a stimulus that is _____ and thus ____ the probablity of a response
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presented, increases
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component of classical conditioning automatically produces a reactivation
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UCS
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what phenomenon has occurred when an operantly conditioned response no longer occurs
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extinction
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which reinforcemnt attern leads to the easiest and quickest extinction
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continuous
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uncondtioned stimulus and unconditioned response
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shock-withdrawal
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how can you know how to drive somewhere evn thoguh your just the passenger
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latent learning
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giving a raise at work is what type of reinforcer
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secondary
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Who is the most closely associated with classical conditioning?
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Pavlov
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what must be paired together for classical conidtion to occur?
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neutral stimulus and unconditioned stimulus
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when ivan pavlov presented meat powder, the dog salivated. the meat
powder was the ___ and salvation was the __
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-UCS, UCR
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which is the correct sequence of events in classical conditioning
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-CS-->UCS-->UCR....CS-->CR
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what could watson and rayner have done to eliminate little ablberts
conditioned fear?
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-show albert a rat many times with a loud noise following
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repeated presentations of the conditioned stimulus(CS) with out the
uncondotioned stimulus(UCS) leads t0?
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-extinction
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mary was bitten by a dog. now she fears the dog that bit her as well
as oher dogs. what aspect of classical conditining is illustrated in
what happened to Mary?
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-generalization
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what process is exhibited by an anima; the learns to respond
differently to two different stimuli?
Definition
-discrimination
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what name was given to JOhn B watson’s apporach to psychlogy?
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-behaviorism
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which treatment is especially effective for overcoming the fear
experienced when a person faces a phobic stimulus?
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-systematic desensitization
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a psychologist is discussing the concept of blocking in classical
conditioning. which statement is the best summary of this concept?
Definition
-prior CS-USC associations can weaken new CS-USC associations
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what is likely the likely outcome in the following situation, a
researcher using classical conditioning plays a loud and soft tone
during conditioning of salivation in dogs. what is likely to happen?
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-theconditioning to the loud tone will be stronger
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how does the amount of time between a CS and the UCS compare in
classical conditional of a salivary response and in taste-aversion
learning?
Definition
-conditioning a salivary response requires a very short interval;
taste aversion learning occurs with interbals of an hour or longe
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which psychologists have the most common theoretical views?
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-skinner watson thorndike
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what is an event or stimulus that makes the behavior it follows more
likely to occur in the furture?
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-reinforcer
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your teacher asks you to compar the effects of positive and negat
reinforcemtn and report back to the clas. what will you tell clasmates
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-negative reinforcemnt decreases target responses; pisitive
reinforcemnt increases target response
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a neg rein is a stim that is ___ and thus __ the prob of a resp.
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-presented; decreases
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a primary rein is a stim that is rein due to ___; a secondary rein is
a stim that is reinforcing due to___
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-innate properties; learning
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which of the following is not a 2dary rein
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-drink of cold water
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what is the name of the sechedules of reinforcemtn in which you
receive a reinforcer only sometimes wen you make a resonse
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-intermittent
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which sched of reinf depends on the numer of responses the organism makes
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-ratio
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if you recieve reinf based on the numbers of resp you make, but the
number of required responses changes each time your behavior is
reinforced on a ___ sched
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-variable -ratio
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what is the partial reinf effect
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-learning under continuous reinf is more difficult
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which of these is an example of punishment
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-giving a child a spanking for telling a lie
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which of these is an example of punishment?
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-taking away a childs fave toy because he hit a kid
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whoch of these is one of the principles for the effective use of punihsment?
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-punishment should be given after each and every target response
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