Teaching your cat to turn on the living room lights would best be accomplished by:
What is shaping?
100
The "magic number" ____ represents the average number of bits of information that short term memory can usually handle:
What is 7?
100
Organizing information into larger units as a way of improving the efficiency of STM is:
What is chunking?
200
In Pavlov's experiments with dogs, the conditioned stimulus was the:
What is the bell?
200
A student does a good job on a math problem for homework, then the teacher awards him a sticker. This demonstrates the use of:
What is positive reinforcement?
200
By a continuous reinforcement schedule, we mean that:
What is each correct response is reinforced?
200
This refers to the fading of memory traces from short term memory:
What is decay?
200
Twenty years after graduating, a woman is able to correctly identify photographs of students she attended high school with from a larger group of strangers. To do so she used:
What is recognition?
300
If you have a snake phobia because you once heard a loud noise while looking at a snake, for you a snake is:
What is a conditioned stimulus?
300
______ occurs when making a response removes an unpleasant event:
What is negative reinforcement?
300
The schedule of reinforcement in which a set number of responses must be made for each reward is called:
What is fixed ratio?
300
The tendency for prior learning to inhibit recall of later learning is called:
What is proactive interference?
300
Memories outside of conscious awareness are called:
What are implicit memories?
400
If the conditioned stimulus is presented many times without reinforcement, what happens:
What is extinction?
400
The presentation of an aversive stimulus or the removal of a positive stimulus are both examples of:
What is punishment?
400
A dog that gets rewarded for the first bark it makes in each ten minute period is being reinforced on a ___ schedule of reinforcement:
What is a fixed interval?
400
The inability to recall events preceding an accident involving injuries to the head is called:
What is retrograde amnesia?
400
Your recollections about your last birthday are stored in your _____ memory:
What is episodic memory?
500
After a response has been extinguished, it will often reappear after a short time has passed. This is called:
What is spontaneous recovery?
500
A child has learned to avoid a furry, black cat. However, she still plays with her grandmother's short-haired tabby. Her response demonstrates:
What is stimulus discrimination?
500
A child who occasionally gets rewarded with candy after asking her grandmother for a "treat" is being rewarded on a:
What is variable ratio?
500
Your sophomore year you get a new bus number, which interferes with your ability to remember your old bus number. This is called:
What is retroactive interference?
500
Remembering items in a list based on where they are positioned is known as: