A fast-decaying store of auditory memory is referred to as:
What is echoic memory.
100
Twenty-five years from now, Breanna is on Jeopardy. One of the answers is "This person was the 44th president of the United States of America." Breanna says confidently, "Who was Barack Obama?" and is correct. To "answer" the "question," Breanna has to use what part of her memory?
What is semantic.
100
Brelands discovered that animals might no learn a particular way because they have ____ to do other things. ex: pigs would rather dig for food instead of coins.
What is predisposition.
100
Chaka suffered brain damage to her hippocampus after a bike accident. Now she can no longer remember things that happened after her injury. Chaka most likely has:
What is anterograde amnesia.
100
. _________ is the process that allows children to learn words so rapidly, by joining a word with a concept after experiencing it only once.
What is fast mapping.
200
People with damage to their ________ lobe are most prone to memory misattribution.
What is the frontal lobe.
200
One day when Max was bowling, his shoelaces came untied and he bowled a strike. From then onward, Max always bowled with his shoes untied. This action is an example of:
What is superstitious behavior.
200
extinction is the gradual elimination of a learned response that occurs when____ is no longer presented
What is Unconditioned Stimulus (US).
200
James Olds (1956) discovered that rats would ignore food, water, and other life-sustaining necessities for hours if they were able to control stimulation of certain parts of the brain. He called these areas of the brain:
What is pleasure centers.
200
Broca's area is located in the ________ cortex:
What is left frontal.
300
Eyewitness misidentification or false recognition is most likely a result of:
What is memory misattribution.
300
Angie's angry boss wears a particular type of cologne. One day, Angie was at the mall when she smelled the same cologne. The smell produced a momentary feeling of uneasiness. In this example, what is the unconditioned response?
What is feelings of uneasiness.
300
In the Bobo doll experiment, children ____ the parents behavior.
What is modeled.
300
Which cells in the brain fire both when an animal performs an action and when it watches the action performed.
What is mirror neurons.
300
Which theory states that we make category judgments by comparing a new instance with stored memories for all other category members?
What is exemplar theory.
400
The tendency to reconstruct the past according to what is believed or known today is:
What is consistency bias.
400
Susie was telling her best friend John about how awesome her summer had been. She told him everything she remembered that happened. Susie could not stop saying, “I remember” while talking to John. What part of memory was Susie using?
What is explicit memory.
400
Every time Kasey, the dog, whines, her owners give her a doggie treat. As a result of her clueless owners, Kasey is a very whiney dog, illustrating the effects of:
What is operant conditioning.
400
In people as well as in rats and other animals, the ________ is critically involved in emotional conditioning.
What is amygdala.
400
The “Aha!” moment that accompanies an insightful solution occurs about one-third of a second after a spike in electrical activity in the:
What is right temporal lobe.
500
The process of bringing to mind information that has been previously encoded and stored:
What is retrieval.
500
Miranda decides on a goal, analyzes her current situation, lists the differences between her current situation and her goal, then settles on strategies to reduce those differences. Miranda is engaging in
What is means-ends analysis.
500
Although it is not known if you have to buy 1, 10, or 100 scratch-off lottery tickets to get a winner, it is highly probable that if you just keep buying, eventually you will get a winner. In fact, maybe the very next ticket you buy will be a winner. Buying scratch-off lottery tickets is reinforced according to a __________ schedule.
What is variable ratio.
500
People with damage to the prefrontal cortex are prone to:
What is risky decision making.
500
Between what age does telegraphic speech (the use of two-word phrases according to syntactic rules) occur.