LEARNING
Your parents get you a ticket to Universal Studios Hollywood Super Mario World for getting all A’s this quarter. In terms of operant conditioning, what is this an example of?
Positive Reinforcement
What are the 3 stages of memory?
Encoding, Storage, & Retrieval
How is intelligence typically measured?
IQ (Intelligence Quotient)
Making decisions based on how easy it is to bring something to mind describes what kind of decision making?
Availability
You go to the park and walk up to a group of ducks by the pond. They seem unphased despite you being very close to them. What is this an example of?
Habituation
You take away your child’s electronics for getting bad grades and having poor behavior in school. In terms of operant conditioning, what is this an example of?
Negative Punishment
Which type of memory holds a large amount of visual information for a very short period of time?
Iconic
“Adulting” is an example of what aspect of language?
Invention
What is the term that describes searching for and using information that supports our ideas?
Confirmation
You ask your little sister if she would like bananas, crackers, yogurt, string cheese, or grapes as a snack. She chooses grapes. What is this an example of?
Recency Effect
You tell your child to complete their chore of washing the dishes before you come home from work, but they don’t do it. You then tell them to take out the trash and wash the dishes. In terms of operant conditioning, what is this an example of?
Positive Punishment
You are doing an escape room and you solved a puzzle to obtain the 5-digit code for a locked box and you repeat the same 5 numbers in your head as you make your way to the locked box. This process is an example of what?
Maintenance Rehearsal
Which brain area is involved in speech production?
Broca’s Area
Creativity is traditionally defined by which two characteristics?
Novelty & Usefulness
If you sustain a TBI and you are able to remember your life before the injury, but cannot create memories after the injury, what is this an example of?
Anterograde Amnesia
The professor decided to cancel the final exam because there was a 100% attendance rate in lecture for the entire quarter. In terms of operant conditioning, what is this an example of?
Negative Reinforcement
Being able to play a song on the guitar after taking a break from practicing is an example of which kind of memory?
Implicit, Non-declarative, Procedural
Which brain area is involved in speech comprehension?
Wernicke’s Area
Which type of creativity involves narrowing down ideas to decide what to do?
Convergent
Which sense is NOT sent to the thalamus?
Smell
You decide to play a joke on your little brother and ring a bell before shooting him with a nerf gun. You spend a week ringing the bell and shooting him with a nerf gun until he starts to flinch at just the sound of the bell. In this example, which aspect is the neutral stimulus? Unconditioned stimulus? Conditioned stimulus? Unconditioned response? Conditioned response?
Neutral stimulus: bell
Unconditioned stimulus: Nerf gun
Conditioned stimulus: bell
Unconditioned response: Flinch at Nerf gun
Conditioned response: Flinch at bell
Reminiscing about your 8th birthday party at the bowling alley is an example of which kind of memory?
Declarative, Episodic, Autobiographical
What is the model that characterizes various kinds of intelligence in which individuals can thrive in or improve on?
Gardner Frames of Mind
True or False? The left brain hemisphere is responsible for logical, analytical, detail-oriented tasks while the right brain hemisphere is responsible for creative, artistic, free thinking tasks.
False. It’s a myth! Studies show that people use both hemispheres.
Making decisions based on readily available attributes describes what kind of decision making?
Representativeness