Cognition
Kathy is learning how to cook. She follows every direction on each recipe step by step to make sure her food tastes good. Which of the following describes the problem-solving approach that kathy is using?
(a) algorithm
(b) representativeness heuristic
(c) divergent thinking
(d) cognitive map
(e) prototype
A
Hillary glances at a graph then turns her head away less than a second later. When she tried to immediately remember what she saw, which of the following types of memory does Hillary use?
iconic, procedural, declarative, implicit, echoic?
iconic
Samuel becomes ill after eating pepperoni pizza and refuses to eat it now. However, he still enjoys plain pizza. Samuel's eating behavior illustrates
negative reinforcement, discrimination, shaping, generalization, chaining
Who is known for operant conditioning?
B.F. Skinner
Where did Mrs. Jaramillo go to college-- bonus points if you can name where she is going to school next year!
The utterance "likes dog my swim to" does not sound correct because it violates the rules of what?
(a) lexicon
(b) prosody
(c) syntax
(d) fast mapping
(e) morphemes
c
An individual's recall tends to be better for information that is personally relevant primarily due to which of the following phenomena?
bottom up processing, visual imagery, dual encoding, self-reference effect, phonemic encoding?
self-reference effect
The first time 4 year old Savannah attempted to make her bed, her father praised her for covering the pillow with a blanket. After a few times, her father began praising Savannah for covering the pillow and tucking in the corners of the sheet. Finally, he praised her when she also smoothed the blanket. The process being described is what?
negative reinforcement, spontaneous recovery, shaping, latent learning, implicit learning
shaping
In order to get more audience participation, a radio show offers a prize to the first person to call the show at the beginning of each hour. The show is using what type of scheduled reinforcement?
fixed interval
How long have I been teaching AP Psychology?
3 years
The difficulty many people have recalling the details of common objects such as pennies can best be explained by what?
interference, memory decay, repression, a lack of encoding, or amnesia???
a lack of encoding
belief perseverance, functional fixedness, the anchoring effect, the framing effect, the availability heuristic
functional fixedness
A rat always completes a maze successfully but is only rewarded every third trial. The rat is being rewarded using what reinforcement schedules?
fixed ratio
A child whose family owns a dog may refer to any four-legged animal as "dog". In learning theory, what is this behavior known as?
stimulus generalization, operant conditioning, classical conditioning, ecological validity, shaping
stimulus generalization
What is her husband's name?
Jay, will also accept Julian
Mikayla, a high school student strongly opposed to video game use, is researching the topic for a speech she will deliver to her English class. Rather than searching for "the effects of video games", Mikayla searches for "the dangers of video games" and finds hundreds of web sites with information she can use to argue her position. Her behavior is an example of
using a syllogism, confirmation bias, insight, self-serving bias, or functional fixedness?
confirmation bias
In elementary school, Lisa learns to speak some Japanese in addition to English. As a sophomore in high school, Lisa took a class in Chinese. She found it difficult to learn because of her earlier Japanese vocabulary was competing with the new Chinese words. The situation best illustrates what?
proactive interference
Jeff always tells his children not to use bad language when something does not go the way they want. Unfortunately, Jeff uses bad language occasionally and his children have observed him do so. Now Jeff's children use bad language. This can be explained by
learned helplessness, social learning theory, representativeness, classical conditioning, self-efficacy
social learning theory
To stop his uncle's constant requests, Jimmy takes out the garbage. This makes him much more likely to take out the garbage in the future. Jimmy's behavior is being controlled by what?
intermittent reinforcement
positive reinforcement
negative reinforcement
vicarious reinforcement
delayed reinforcement
negative reinforcement
How many different subjects has Mrs. KJ taught??
5!
What is the difference between availability heuristic and representative heuristic?
availability: bias towards what is available in your mind, representative: bias towards/against what that person, thing or place represents (stereotypes)
memories of well-learned skills, such as riding a bike, are classified as what types of memories?
procedural
Name all parts of the classical conditioning from the scenario below: Unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus and conditioned response.
Ms. Morris loves watching Harry Potter, it brings her happiness and Joy. Recently, she has watched Harry Potter each night for the month of May and has been eating popcorn. Now, when someone talks about HP, she craves popcorn!
US:harry potter
UR:wanting popcorn
CS:harry potter discussion
CR: wanting popcorn
Researcher's paired rats' drinking of sweetened water with the injections of drugs that weakened their immune systems. After repeated pairings, sweetened water triggered the rat's immune systems to break down. What was the conditioned stimulus of the study?
sweetened water
When did Mrs. Jaramillo get married HEHEHEHEHE
ill take a 5 +/- window-- bonus points if it is the EXACT date.
3.26.2021