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Question 13
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Question 13
Which of the following is an example of fixed ratio reinforcement schedule?


checking your e-mail at random times throughout the day instead of every time you hear the new e-mail notification


feeding your fish every day at 8 a.m.


knowing you will get to play miniature golf as soon as you collect 10 gold stars for your reward chart


playing the slot machine



Text Section: 6.3 Operant Conditioning

Bloom’s Level: Apply

Difficulty: Moderate

Question 14
Question 14
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Question 14
Your memory of how to ride a bicycle is probably something that you don’t actively think about while you’re riding. You just sort of “do it” without thinking of how you do it. This is an example of a(n) ________ memory.


explicit


implicit


semantic


sensory



Text Section: 8.1 How Memory Functions

Bloom’s Level: Apply

Difficulty: Difficult

Question 15
Question 15
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Question 15
Recent research conducted by Cowan (2010) has found that the capacity of working memory is how many units of information?


3 plus or minus 2


4 plus or minus 1


7 plus or minus 2


9 plus or minus 3



Text Section: 8.1 How Memory Functions

Bloom’s Level: Remember

Difficulty: Moderate

Question 16
Question 16
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Question 16
Katya studies Spanish for three years, and then switches to Pashto. When asked to remember Spanish vocabulary she can’t; instead she can only remember Pashto vocabulary. This is an example of ________ interference.


retrograde


anterograde


proactive


retroactive



Text Section: 8.3 Problems with Memory

Bloom’s Level: Apply

Difficulty: Difficult

Question 17
Question 17
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Question 17
In order to remember his lines for the play, Guy repeats his lines over and over again. This process is called ________.


declarative memory


hyperthymesia


rehearsal


relearning



Text Section: 8.1 How Memory Functions

Bloom’s Level: Apply

Difficulty: Moderate

Question 18
Question 18
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Question 18
From a cognitive psychology perspective, why is getting plenty of sleep the night before an exam important?


A good night of sleep inhibits the experience of retroactive interference.


It decreases the likelihood of experiencing transience of memories.


It makes sure that your neurons are firing at peak speed and efficiency.


It allows for consolidation of studied material in long-term memory.



Text Section: 8.4 Ways to Enhance Memory

Bloom’s Level: Understand

Difficulty: Moderate











Short Answer

Question 19
Question 19
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Question 19
Which of the following is an example of vicarious punishment?


Belinda saw Mavis receive a hug for cleaning his room. She is careful to clean her room because she saw Mavis get a reward for doing it.


Jeong observes his sister Bronwyn getting spanked for spitting out her carrots. Because he does not like getting spanked, he chews and swallows the carrots even though he hates them.


Job wants to avoid being fired, so he follows the shop rules and does not smoke in the bathroom.


Laurie wants to receive a smiley sticker and she knows from reading the rulebook that she will receive one if she behaves herself.



Text Section: 6.4 Observational Learning (Modeling)

Bloom’s Level: Apply

Difficulty: Moderate

Question 20
Question 20
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Question 20
What kind of memory involves storage of brief events, such as sights, sounds, and tastes?


effortful


procedural


recall


sensory



Text Section: 8.1 How Memory Functions

Bloom’s Level: Remember

Difficulty: Easy

Question 21
Question 21
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Question 21
Which statement about B. F. Skinner is correct?


He is famous for demonstrating the principles of operant conditioning: The motivation for a behavior happens after the behavior is demonstrated.


He placed hungry rats in a maze with no reward for finding their way through it, and he studied a comparison group that was rewarded with food at the end of the maze.


He worked with Edward C. Tolman to prove that fear is both an instinct and a reflex.


His experiments demonstrated that organisms can learn even if they do not receive immediate reinforcement.



Text Section: 6.3 Operant Conditioning

Bloom’s Level: Understand

Difficulty: Difficult

Question 22
Question 22
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Question 22
Sharmila cannot remember what she had for breakfast last week, but she can remember the day she got married ten years ago as clearly as if it just happened. This example illustrates the ________ theory.


arousal


emotion


equipotentiality


flashbulb



Text Section: 8.2 Parts of the Brain Involved with Memory

Bloom’s Level: Apply

Difficulty: Moderate

Question 23
Question 23
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Question 23
Barney used to live in Pittsburgh, and his telephone number started with the area code 412. Now he has moved to Baltimore, and his new telephone number has an area code of 410. Barney remembers his new area code by connecting it to the old one and just “subtracting two.” This is an example of ________ rehearsal.


maintenance


massed


mnemonic


elaborative



Text Section: 8.4 Ways to Enhance Memory

Bloom’s Level: Apply

Difficulty: Moderate

Question 24
Question 24
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Question 24
When Benito was five he cut his leg on some glass and needed stiches. Years later, his mother tells him the scar came from being bit by a dog. Now, when people ask about his scar he distinctly remembers the dog biting him. This is an example of the ________.


Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm


equipotentiality hypothesis


levels of processing theory


misinformation effect paradigm



Text Section: 8.3 Problems with Memory

Bloom’s Level: Apply

Difficulty: Moderate

Question 25
Question 25
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Question 25
Classical and operant conditioning are forms of ________ learning.


associative


instinctive


processual


reflexive



Text Section: 6.1 What is Learning?

Bloom’s Level: Remember

Difficulty: Easy

Answers

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Here are the answers to your questions:

### Question 13
**Answer:** knowing you will get to play miniature golf as soon as you collect 10 gold stars for your reward chart

### Question 14
**Answer:** implicit

### Question 15
**Answer:** 4 plus or minus 1

### Question 16
**Answer:** retroactive

### Question 17
**Answer:** rehearsal

### Question 18
**Answer:** It allows for consolidation of studied material in long-term memory.

### Question 19
**Answer:** Jeong observes his sister Bronwyn getting spanked for spitting out her carrots. Because he does not like getting spanked, he chews and swallows the carrots even though he hates them.

### Question 20
**Answer:** sensory

### Question 21
**Answer:** He is famous for demonstrating the principles of operant conditioning: The motivation for a behavior happens after the behavior is demonstrated.

### Question 22
**Answer:** flashbulb

### Question 23
**Answer:** elaborative

### Question 24
**Answer:** misinformation effect paradigm

### Question 25
**Answer:** associative

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