Sensation & Perception
Memory
Learning
Learning Pt. 2
100
What Gestalt Principle is being referenced in this photo?
Closure
100
Your best friend wants to know the best way to study for his general psychology exam. Your advice to him would be which of the following?
a. Test himself at least three times, even if you get it wrong
b. Space out his testing to a few days or weeks before the exam
c. Cram for your exam the night before and don’t bother sleeping
d. Test himself at least three times, even if you get it wrong & space out his testing to a few days or weeks before the exam
B
100
Professors build in small assignments to help you understand what you need to do to get an A. This is considered ___________ behavior in learning.
Shaping
100
You have to get your teeth cleaned every 6 months. What type of partial reinforcement is this?
Fixed Interval
200
Candace wants her boyfriend to buy her a specific ring. She starts dropping subtle hints about rings she likes. This is ___________ her boyfriend to buy her the ring.
Priming
200
Taylor P. was unable to make a paper airplane until he watched Taylor W. make a few. Now Taylor P. can fold the paper to make his own paper airplanes. This is an example of what type of learning?
Observational Learning
200
Campbell saw an advertisement for a company on television. The company stated that a free item would be given every 10th phone call. They picked up their phone to try and get a chance at winning. What type of partial reinforcement is this?
Fixed Ratio (A fixed number of times)
200
Natalie rewards herself with a break from studying after she has finished studying a random number of pages. What type of partial reinforcement is this?
Variable Ratio (Random number of pages)
300
In the photo above, some people report seeing B as a woman instead of a jumbled-up face. This demonstrates that some people have a ____________ to see the woman versus the face.
Perceptual Set
300
Knowing where you were when Obama was inaugurated for his second presidency is a _______ memory and knowing Abraham Lincoln is on the five-dollar bill is a _______ memory.
Episodic; Semantic
300
In one psychology course, the professor will randomly give pop quizzes on Friday. This is an example of what type of partial reinforcement?
Variable Interval (Randomly on Fridays, which is a measure of time)
300
In Kindergarten, students are given pizza parties if they reach their reading points. What type of reinforcement or punishment is this?
Positive reinforcement
400
_______ refers to the response of our sensory organs to external stimuli, while _______ describes our psychological process of interpreting those stimuli.
Sensation; Perception
400
You write down a list of items your parent tells you to get. When you get to the store, you realize that you forgot it in the car. You can recall the last few items on the list because of ______________ memory.
a. long-term memory
b. working memory
c. short-term memory
d. recognition
C
400
Offering reduced prison sentences in exchange for community service is an example of which type of reinforcement or punishment?
Negative reinforcement
400
After Harry Potter upset Dolores Umbridge, she made him write “I will not tell lies” to discourage him from lying to her. What type of punishment or reinforcement is this?
Positive Punishment
500
Jarrod is in the coffee shop completing homework. When he looks up, he sees the coffee shop logo and thinks that it looks like a dog. What type of information processing (e.g., top-down or bottom-up) is he using?
Top-down Processing
500
Anterograde amnesia is the inability to form new memories, which affects _____________ measure of memory. Retrograde amnesia is the inability to remember old memories, which affects ___________ measure of memory.
a. Encoding; Retrieval
b. Retrieval; Encoding
c. Episodic; Semantic
d. Semantic; Episodic
A
500
Ms. Bell decides to let her class condition her. They blow air into her eye every time a certain word is mentioned, and she blinks hard. After a few classes, whenever a student mentions the word, her eyes blink hard. What is the conditioned stimulus?
a. The eye blinking hard
b. The word
c. The air being blown in the eye
d. Nothing because this is an operant conditioning experiment
B
500
When addicts fail to keep their sobriety, they lose their alcoholic anonymous chips. What type of reinforcement or punishment is this?
Negative Punishment