Chapter 7
True or false: Memories is perfect and always reliable.
False - memory is malleable and not always reliable.
He studied classical conditioning in dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
True or false: syntax is the word / phrase order in a sentence.
True
The main proponent of the G-factor theory of intelligence.
Who is Charles Galton?
Jack gets a parking ticket for parking in the wrong lot on campus, so he stops parking there.
(operant or classical)
What is operant conditioning?
If I remember pink the best what effect is being shown?
pink
green
purple
orange
green
What is primacy effect?
Conducted the Bobo Doll experiments where children mimicked adults being polite or aggressive with the dolls.
Who is Albert Bandura?
True for false: one-word utterances typically occurs when babies are less than 6 months old.
False
True or false: traditional intelligence tests can only measure one thing.
False
The theory of language that says without the words for a certain concept, we cannot think about that concept.
What is linguistic determinism hypothesis?
True or False: HM could not remember things before his hippocampus was removed; he had retrograde amnesia.
False - HM could not form new memories after his hippocampus was removed; he could remember things that happened before. He had anterograde amnesia.
What happened when John Watson presented the rat to the babies WITHOUT the scary sound? (after presenting the babies with the rat and scary sound together for many trials)
They demonstrated a fear response anyway.
Whose theory had the key tenant that children are born with an innate capacity to learn language?
Who is Noam Chomsky?
Language Acquisition Device
What obstacle to problem solving is shown here: John needs to open his package and spends 20 minutes looking for scissors, but he has his keys in his hand and he could have cut it open with them.
What is functional fixedness?
Ella believes that she is having a bad day, so she only notices and focuses on the things that support her having a bad day, even though she also got an A on her test and won a gift card in a raffle.
What is confirmation bias?
What type of memory and is it explicit or implicit?
Jack knows all the states and capitals for his quiz on Tuesday.
Semantic - explicit
Is this positive reinforcement, positive punishment, negative reinforcement, or negative punishment:
Emma takes Advil to get rid of her headache
What is negative reinforcement?
Is this an example of inductive or deductive reasoning:
Football games at USC happen on Saturdays.
There is a Kentucky football game at USC coming up.
The Kentucky game is on Saturday.
What is deductive reasoning?
Is this question an example of divergent or convergent thinking:
Answering the multiple choice questions on your Exam Wednesday.
What is convergent thinking?
Edward Tolman showed that this type of learning can happen without reinforcement.
What is latent learning?
What are the 4 steps of memory formation? And describe them!
Encoding - taking in and processing sensory information
Consolidation - solidifying the information into a memory
Storage: retaining the memory over time
Retrieval: use of the information in memory
Label the US, UR, CS, and CR
Jack's little brother has been scaring him by jumping out behind the fridge and yelling boo every time Jack gets a snack. Now whenever Jack touches the fridge door, his heart starts racing.
US: Yelling boo
UR: Heart racing
CS: Touching fridge door handle
CR: Heart racing
Is this an example of availability or representativeness heuristic: You refuse to swim in the ocean after seeing a news articles about a shark attack.
What is availability heuristic?
What type of intelligence from the triarchic model is shown in this example: (practical, creative, analytical)
Emma's phone died when she was out but she finds her way back home by retracing her steps back to the train station.
What is practical intelligence?
True or false: After age 12, the neural plasticity of the brain is more flexible.
False