Question
Question 38
2
Points
Question 38
Which of the following experiments involves the use of operant conditioning?
blindfolding someone and timing him to see how long it takes him to estimate the size of a room
determining how long it takes someone to learn how to fish if he is only allowed to watch other people fishing
pairing a puff of air to the eye with seeing the color red in order to find out how many repetitions it will take for someone to blink when he sees the color red
rewarding a child for finishing his oatmeal mush and counting how many times the child needs to be rewarded before he finishes his oatmeal voluntarily
Text Section: 6.3 Operant Conditioning
Bloom’s Level: Apply
Difficulty: Difficult
Question 39
Question 39
2
Points
Question 39
Jemma wants to teach her son to say thank you. Every time he says thank you, Jemma praises him and gives him a hug. Which reinforcement schedule is this?
continuous
partial
primary
secondary
Text Section: 6.3 Operant Conditioning
Bloom’s Level: Apply
Difficulty: Moderate
Question 40
Question 40
2
Points
Question 40
What is the set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time?
automatic processing
effortful processing
memory
sensory encoding
Text Section: 8.1 How Memory Functions
Bloom’s Level: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Question 41
Question 41
2
Points
Question 41
What is the main idea of levels of processing theory?
Aerobic exercise promotes neurogenesis.
If you want to remember a piece of information, you should think about it more deeply and link it to other information and memories to make it more meaningful.
In order to remember information, you should build a web of retrieval cues to help you access material when you want to remember it.
Overlearning can help prevent storage decay.
Text Section: 8.1 How Memory Functions
Bloom’s Level: Understand
Difficulty: Moderate
Question 42
Question 42
2
Points
Question 42
Which of the following is an example of vicarious reinforcement?
Babs saw Martin receive a candy bar for completing his reading list. She is careful to complete her reading list because she saw Martin get a reward for doing it.
Lana wants to receive a candy bar and she knows from reading the rulebook that she will receive one if she earns enough good behavior tokens.
Park wants to avoid detention, so he follows the school rules and does not smoke on the playground.
Ryan observes Cameron getting a time out for spitting out her toast. Because he saw his friend punished, he does not spit out his toast.
Text Section: 6.4 Observational Learning (Modeling)
Bloom’s Level: Apply
Difficulty: Moderate
Question 43
Question 43
2
Points
Question 43
What do psychologists call a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience?
conditioning
instincts
learning
reflexes
Text Section: 6.1 What is Learning?
Bloom’s Level: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Question 44
Question 44
2
Points
Question 44
Stanley was diagnosed with lymphoma and had to undergo several months of chemotherapy. During this time he would become very nauseated as a side effect, and unintentionally came to associate that nausea with his favorite grilled cheese sandwich. Now, years later, even thinking about a grilled cheese sandwich makes him sick. In this example, Stanley’s nauseous reaction to a grilled cheese sandwich is the ________.
unconditioned stimulus
unconditioned response
conditioned stimulus
conditioned response
Text Section: 6.2 Classical Conditioning
Bloom’s Level: Apply
Difficulty: Difficult
Question 45
Question 45
2
Points
Question 45
After a hurricane warning came across the television, young Eli became terrified of the alarm sound that signaled a severe weather warning. Over the next few months he heard it several times when the “required monthly tests” came on the television, and his fear faded away. One day the alarm sounded and Eli jumped up and ran out of the room. This return of a previously extinguished response is called ________.
second-level conditioning
operant conditioning
spontaneous recovery
latent learning
Text Section: 6.2 Classical Conditioning
Bloom’s Level: Apply
Difficulty: Difficult
Question 46
Question 46
2
Points
Question 46
Amarah has an exam in a week, so she schedules 30 to 60 minutes each night to review her course material. She does this rather than waiting until the night before the exam so that she can avoid a “cram session.” Amarah’s approach to studying is called ________ practice.
chunked
massed
distributed
proactive
Text Section: 8.4 Ways to Enhance Memory
Bloom’s Level: Apply
Difficulty: Easy
Question 47
Question 47
2
Points
Question 47
What is episodic memory?
information about events we have personally experienced
knowledge about words, concepts, and language-based knowledge and facts
storage of facts and events we have personally experienced
type of implicit memory that stores information about how to do things
Text Section: 8.1 How Memory Functions
Bloom’s Level: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Question 48
Question 48
2
Points
Question 48
Within the semantic network model of memory, what would happen to concepts that are related to (or attached) to one that is currently being activated by thinking about it?
They’d be activated more strongly than the concept first activated.
They would undergo a structural change.
They would also be activated, though at a lower level.
They would be inhibited from being activation.
Text Section: 8.1 How Memory Functions
Bloom’s Level: Understand
Difficulty: Easy
Question 49
Question 49
2
Points
Question 49
The act of getting information out of memory storage and back into conscious awareness is known as ________.
encoding
hyperthymesia
retrieval
storage
Text Section: 8.1 How Memory Functions
Bloom’s Level: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Question 50
Question 50
2
Points
Question 50
Dozens of people witness a purse snatching. One of the eyewitnesses loudly yells “the man with the blue shirt did it.” Later, when questioned by police, several other eyewitnesses remember the purse snatcher wearing a blue shirt, even though the purse snatcher was a woman in flowered dress. This is an example of ________, or the effects of misinformation from external sources that leads to the creation of false memories.
transience
suggestibility
recognition
decay
Text Section: 8.3 Problems with Memory
Bloom’s Level: Apply
Difficulty: Moderate
2
Points
Question 38
Which of the following experiments involves the use of operant conditioning?
blindfolding someone and timing him to see how long it takes him to estimate the size of a room
determining how long it takes someone to learn how to fish if he is only allowed to watch other people fishing
pairing a puff of air to the eye with seeing the color red in order to find out how many repetitions it will take for someone to blink when he sees the color red
rewarding a child for finishing his oatmeal mush and counting how many times the child needs to be rewarded before he finishes his oatmeal voluntarily
Text Section: 6.3 Operant Conditioning
Bloom’s Level: Apply
Difficulty: Difficult
Question 39
Question 39
2
Points
Question 39
Jemma wants to teach her son to say thank you. Every time he says thank you, Jemma praises him and gives him a hug. Which reinforcement schedule is this?
continuous
partial
primary
secondary
Text Section: 6.3 Operant Conditioning
Bloom’s Level: Apply
Difficulty: Moderate
Question 40
Question 40
2
Points
Question 40
What is the set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time?
automatic processing
effortful processing
memory
sensory encoding
Text Section: 8.1 How Memory Functions
Bloom’s Level: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Question 41
Question 41
2
Points
Question 41
What is the main idea of levels of processing theory?
Aerobic exercise promotes neurogenesis.
If you want to remember a piece of information, you should think about it more deeply and link it to other information and memories to make it more meaningful.
In order to remember information, you should build a web of retrieval cues to help you access material when you want to remember it.
Overlearning can help prevent storage decay.
Text Section: 8.1 How Memory Functions
Bloom’s Level: Understand
Difficulty: Moderate
Question 42
Question 42
2
Points
Question 42
Which of the following is an example of vicarious reinforcement?
Babs saw Martin receive a candy bar for completing his reading list. She is careful to complete her reading list because she saw Martin get a reward for doing it.
Lana wants to receive a candy bar and she knows from reading the rulebook that she will receive one if she earns enough good behavior tokens.
Park wants to avoid detention, so he follows the school rules and does not smoke on the playground.
Ryan observes Cameron getting a time out for spitting out her toast. Because he saw his friend punished, he does not spit out his toast.
Text Section: 6.4 Observational Learning (Modeling)
Bloom’s Level: Apply
Difficulty: Moderate
Question 43
Question 43
2
Points
Question 43
What do psychologists call a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience?
conditioning
instincts
learning
reflexes
Text Section: 6.1 What is Learning?
Bloom’s Level: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Question 44
Question 44
2
Points
Question 44
Stanley was diagnosed with lymphoma and had to undergo several months of chemotherapy. During this time he would become very nauseated as a side effect, and unintentionally came to associate that nausea with his favorite grilled cheese sandwich. Now, years later, even thinking about a grilled cheese sandwich makes him sick. In this example, Stanley’s nauseous reaction to a grilled cheese sandwich is the ________.
unconditioned stimulus
unconditioned response
conditioned stimulus
conditioned response
Text Section: 6.2 Classical Conditioning
Bloom’s Level: Apply
Difficulty: Difficult
Question 45
Question 45
2
Points
Question 45
After a hurricane warning came across the television, young Eli became terrified of the alarm sound that signaled a severe weather warning. Over the next few months he heard it several times when the “required monthly tests” came on the television, and his fear faded away. One day the alarm sounded and Eli jumped up and ran out of the room. This return of a previously extinguished response is called ________.
second-level conditioning
operant conditioning
spontaneous recovery
latent learning
Text Section: 6.2 Classical Conditioning
Bloom’s Level: Apply
Difficulty: Difficult
Question 46
Question 46
2
Points
Question 46
Amarah has an exam in a week, so she schedules 30 to 60 minutes each night to review her course material. She does this rather than waiting until the night before the exam so that she can avoid a “cram session.” Amarah’s approach to studying is called ________ practice.
chunked
massed
distributed
proactive
Text Section: 8.4 Ways to Enhance Memory
Bloom’s Level: Apply
Difficulty: Easy
Question 47
Question 47
2
Points
Question 47
What is episodic memory?
information about events we have personally experienced
knowledge about words, concepts, and language-based knowledge and facts
storage of facts and events we have personally experienced
type of implicit memory that stores information about how to do things
Text Section: 8.1 How Memory Functions
Bloom’s Level: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Question 48
Question 48
2
Points
Question 48
Within the semantic network model of memory, what would happen to concepts that are related to (or attached) to one that is currently being activated by thinking about it?
They’d be activated more strongly than the concept first activated.
They would undergo a structural change.
They would also be activated, though at a lower level.
They would be inhibited from being activation.
Text Section: 8.1 How Memory Functions
Bloom’s Level: Understand
Difficulty: Easy
Question 49
Question 49
2
Points
Question 49
The act of getting information out of memory storage and back into conscious awareness is known as ________.
encoding
hyperthymesia
retrieval
storage
Text Section: 8.1 How Memory Functions
Bloom’s Level: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Question 50
Question 50
2
Points
Question 50
Dozens of people witness a purse snatching. One of the eyewitnesses loudly yells “the man with the blue shirt did it.” Later, when questioned by police, several other eyewitnesses remember the purse snatcher wearing a blue shirt, even though the purse snatcher was a woman in flowered dress. This is an example of ________, or the effects of misinformation from external sources that leads to the creation of false memories.
transience
suggestibility
recognition
decay
Text Section: 8.3 Problems with Memory
Bloom’s Level: Apply
Difficulty: Moderate
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Here are the answers for the questions provided:
**Question 38:**
Answer: **rewarding a child for finishing his oatmeal mush and counting how many times the child needs to be rewarded before he finishes his oatmeal voluntarily**
(Operant conditioning involves reinforcing behaviors.)
**Question 39:**
Answer: **continuous**
(Jemma praises and hugs her son every time he says thank you, which shows continuous reinforcement.)
**Question 40:**
Answer: **memory**
(Memory refers to the set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time.)
**Question 41:**
Answer: **If you want to remember a piece of information, you should think about it more deeply and link it to other information and memories to make it more meaningful.**
(This reflects the core concept of levels of processing theory.)
**Question 42:**
Answer: **Babs saw Martin receive a candy bar for completing his reading list. She is careful to complete her reading list because she saw Martin get a reward for doing it.**
(This describes vicarious reinforcement, where one learns from the rewards of others.)
**Question 43:**
Answer: **learning**
(A relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience is called learning.)
**Question 44:**
Answer: **conditioned response**
(Stanley's nauseous reaction to the grilled cheese sandwich is a conditioned response, as it was learned through association.)
**Question 45:**
Answer: **spontaneous recovery**
(Eli's return of fear in response to the alarm after a period of extinction is called spontaneous recovery.)
**Question 46:**
Answer: **distributed**
(Amarah's approach to studying over time is an example of distributed practice.)
**Question 47:**
Answer: **information about events we have personally experienced**
(Episodic memory refers specifically to memories of personal experiences and events.)
**Question 48:**
Answer: **They would also be activated, though at a lower level.**
(In the semantic network model, related concepts become activated but to a lesser extent than the primary concept.)
**Question 49:**
Answer: **retrieval**
(The act of getting information out of memory storage and into conscious awareness is known as retrieval.)
**Question 50:**
Answer: **suggestibility**
(This scenario illustrates suggestibility, where external misinformation leads to the development of false memories.)
Feel free to ask if you have any additional questions!
**Question 38:**
Answer: **rewarding a child for finishing his oatmeal mush and counting how many times the child needs to be rewarded before he finishes his oatmeal voluntarily**
(Operant conditioning involves reinforcing behaviors.)
**Question 39:**
Answer: **continuous**
(Jemma praises and hugs her son every time he says thank you, which shows continuous reinforcement.)
**Question 40:**
Answer: **memory**
(Memory refers to the set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time.)
**Question 41:**
Answer: **If you want to remember a piece of information, you should think about it more deeply and link it to other information and memories to make it more meaningful.**
(This reflects the core concept of levels of processing theory.)
**Question 42:**
Answer: **Babs saw Martin receive a candy bar for completing his reading list. She is careful to complete her reading list because she saw Martin get a reward for doing it.**
(This describes vicarious reinforcement, where one learns from the rewards of others.)
**Question 43:**
Answer: **learning**
(A relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience is called learning.)
**Question 44:**
Answer: **conditioned response**
(Stanley's nauseous reaction to the grilled cheese sandwich is a conditioned response, as it was learned through association.)
**Question 45:**
Answer: **spontaneous recovery**
(Eli's return of fear in response to the alarm after a period of extinction is called spontaneous recovery.)
**Question 46:**
Answer: **distributed**
(Amarah's approach to studying over time is an example of distributed practice.)
**Question 47:**
Answer: **information about events we have personally experienced**
(Episodic memory refers specifically to memories of personal experiences and events.)
**Question 48:**
Answer: **They would also be activated, though at a lower level.**
(In the semantic network model, related concepts become activated but to a lesser extent than the primary concept.)
**Question 49:**
Answer: **retrieval**
(The act of getting information out of memory storage and into conscious awareness is known as retrieval.)
**Question 50:**
Answer: **suggestibility**
(This scenario illustrates suggestibility, where external misinformation leads to the development of false memories.)
Feel free to ask if you have any additional questions!