General Psychology Final Kent State Questions and Answers
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General Psychology Kent State
General Psychology Final Kent State Questions and Answers
Adolescent Egocentrism - Answer-Inability of teenagers to distinguish between what they believe people think about them and what people actually think about them.
Learning - Answer-A relatively permanent change in behavior or mental pro...
General Psychology Final Kent State
Questions and Answers
Adolescent Egocentrism - Answer-Inability of teenagers to distinguish between what
they believe people think about them and what people actually think about them.
Learning - Answer-A relatively permanent change in behavior or mental process
resulting from practice.
Classical Conditioning - Answer-A neutral stimulus is associated with a meaningful
stimulus and continues to get the same result.
Bob's wife flushed the toilet when he was in the shower causing the water to turn hot
and for bob to scream. Now every time his wife flushes the toilet bob flenches what is
this an example of? - Answer-Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning - Answer-A behavior becomes associated with a consequence.
Unconditioned Response - Answer-A stimulus that gets a response without prior
learning.
In Pavlov's dog experiment the dog salivating at the food was the? - Answer-
Unconditioned Response
Conditioned Response - Answer-A learned response to a stimulus.
In Pavlov's dog experiment the dog associating the ringing of the bell with food was the?
- Answer-Conditioned Response
Positive Reinforcement - Answer-Presenting a motivating item after a desired behavior.
Every time Sara does a chore she gets a dollar what type of reinforcement is this? -
Answer-Positive
Negative Reinforcement - Answer-A behavior is strengthened or stopped by taking
something negative away.
When it is raining you turn on the windshield wipers which then results in their being no
rain on your windshield what type of reinforcement is this? - Answer-Negitive
, Positive Punishment - Answer-Getting something negative when a negative behavior is
exhibited.
You were told to not touch the filling cabinet after doing so you received a shock what
type of Punishment is this? - Answer-Positive
Negative Punishment - Answer-Taking away something positive after a negative
behavior is exhibited.
You decide to stay out past curfew and in result get grounded what type of punishment
is this? - Answer-Negative Punsihment
Pavlov - Answer-Classical Conditioning
Watson - Answer-Behaviorism
Skinner - Answer-Operant Conditioning
Bandura - Answer-Observational Learning
Memory - Answer-The retention of information and experiences over time.
Short-Term Memory - Answer-Limited capacity and only holds information for thirty
seconds without actually thinking about it.
Rehersal - Answer-Saying something over and over so you don't forget
Chunking - Answer-To remember long lists we often remember them in easy segments.
Long-Term Memory - Answer-Where we store unlimited information for a long period of
time.
Implicit (Non-Declaritive) Memory - Answer-Non conscious memory for skills,
procedures and responses.
You ride your bike everyday to and from school but when you are asked to explain how
you do the only response you can think of is "because I just know how" what part of
your memory allows this to happen? - Answer-Implicit (Non-Declarative) Memory
Explicit (Declarative) Memory - Answer-Conscious memories for people, places, events
and facts.
Psychology - Answer-The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Four Goals of Psychology - Answer-Describe, Predict, Explain, and Change behavior
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