Chapter 9 Part 1
Most people cannot remember anything from before they were four. This may be due to
A. Child amnesia
B. Infantile amnesia
C. Child memory failure
D. Infantile memory failure
B. Infantile amnesia
According to Erik Erikson's Stages of Development, the conflict between initiative and guilt occurs at what stage
A. Early childhood (2-3 years)
B. Preschool (3-5 years)
C. School age (6-11 years)
D. Young adulthood (19-40 years)
B. Preschool (3-5 years)
Before the experiment begins, Pavlov rings the bell and the dogs don't salivate. The bell is the
A. Conditioned stimulus
B. Unconditioned stimulus
C. Neutral stimulus
D. Conditioned response
C. Neutral stimulus
Ally doesn't clean her room, so her mom takes away her car. This is
A. Positive reinforcement
B. Negative punishment
C. Positive reinforcement
D. Negative punishment
D. Negative punishment
According to the paradox of choice, will you be happier ordering off a menu with five options or thirty options?
A. Five options will make you happier- there's less indecisiveness
B. Thirty options will make you happier- you get to pick what you want
C. Same level of happiness with five or thirty options
A. Five options will make you happier- there's less indecisiveness
After all organs are formed and the heart begins to beat, one is a
A. Zygote
B. Infant
C. Newborn
D. Fetus
D. Fetus
A child is distressed when the caregiver leaves but denies affection from the mother after she returns
A. Secure
B. Insecure
C. Ambivalent
D. Avoidant
C. Ambivalent
Modeling is an example of
A. Non-associative learning
B. Classical conditioning
C. Associative learning
D. Observational learning
D. Observational learning
Jimmy has been classically conditioned so that when his mom comes home, he gets a piece of candy. One day, Jimmy's mom comes home and he expects a candy but then she gives him something better- an entire piece of cake! This is an example of
A. Positive reinforcement
B. Negative reinforcement
C. Positive prediction error
D. Negative prediction error
C. Positive prediction error
I walk into the car dealership and I see the car I want is $100,000. By the time I leave, I have negotiated to get the car for $90,000 and I'm happy I got a good deal. But I probably have been tricked by
A. Framing
B. Availability heuristic
C. Anchoring
D. Representative heuristic
C. Anchoring
Birth until 18-24 months is
A. Childhood
B. Embryo
C. Adolescence
D. Infancy
D. Infancy
2-7 years is
A. Sensorimotor
B. Preoperational
C. Concrete operational
D. Formal operational
B. Preoperational
You are used to hearing your roommate play music everyday at about 8:00 a.m.. Since it happens everyday, you barely notice the music playing in the morning. BUT, one day, your roommate doesn't play the music and you notice, this is an example of
A. Habituation
B. Dishabituation
C. Sensitization
D. Sensible
B. Dishabituation
Your puppy, Molly, gets fed when your alarm goes off at 5:00 p.m.. Your alarm to feed Molly is 300 Hz. You also have alarms to wake up and go to class. These alarms are at 250 and 350 Hz, but when they go off Molly does notexpect food. However, if the 300 Hz alarm goes off anytime, Molly expects food. This is an example of
A. Stimulus discrimination
B. Stimulus generalization
C. Extinction
D. Spontaneous recovery
A. Stimulus discrimination
It, is, un, and re are examples of
A. Morphemes
B. Phonemes
C. Prefixes
D. Suffixes
A. Morphemes
Something that helps brain systems communicate
A. Synaptic pruning
B. Myelination
C. Synaptic globing
D. Networking
B. Myelination
A researcher shows a baby his toy truck. In front of the baby are two boxes, box A and B. The researcher places the truck under box A. He asks the baby where the truck is and the baby points to box A. The researcher does this a few times and the baby picks box A correctly. Then, the researcher places the trick under box B. He asks the baby where the toy is and the baby picks box A again, despite watching the researcher put the toy under box B. This is an example of
A. Object permanence
B. Centration
C. A not B error
D. Conservation of number
C. A not B error
Before Pavlov started the experiment, the dog food was the
A. Conditioned stimulus
B. Unconditioned stimulus
C. Conditioned response
D. Unconditioned response
B. Unconditioned stimulus
Mike's girlfriend wants him to pick up his socks. She mentions it everyday for a week. Mike gets annoyed that he has to hear her ask him to pick up his socks everyday. He picks up his socks finally in order to not hear her complain about it again. This is an example of
A. Positive punishment
B. Negative punishment
C. Positive reinforcement
D. Negative reinforcement
D. Negative reinforcement
The english language has about how many phonemes?
A. 10
B. 20
C. 30
D. 40
D. 40
Which of the following is not one of the innate reflexes infants have?
A. Rolling reflex
B. Grasping reflex
C. Rooting reflex
D. Sucking reflex
A. Rolling reflex
Conservation of number fits under what stage of development?
A. Sensorimotor
B. Preoperational
C. Concrete operational
D. Formal operational
C. Concrete operational
By the end of the experiment, the dogs salivate to the sound of the bell. The bell is now the
A. Neutral stimulus
B. Unconditioned stimulus
C. Unconditioned response
D. Conditioned stimulus
D. Conditioned stimulus
When one's environment shapes their behavior it is
A. Classical conditioning
B. Associative learning
C. Operant conditioning
D. Environmental learning
C. Operant conditioning
John has a stroke and then develops aphasia. John talks a lot but nothing he says makes any sense. John probably has
A. Broca's aphasia
B. Wernicke's aphasia
C. Either Broca's or Wernicke's aphasia
D. Neither Broca or Wernicke's aphasia
B. Wernicke's aphasia