PSYC 1010 Final Exam Review Part 2 Questions and Correct Answers

_______ is the technique used to try to extract the structure of intelligence from a set of correlations. Factor analysis If you give your dog a biscuit every fifth time he plays dead, what reinforcement schedule is he on? Fixed ratio Edward Thorndike conducted an experiment which involved putting a cat in a cage with a simple latch; a piece of fish was outside of the cage. Through trial and error, the cat got out. On later trials, the cat got out more quickly by figuring out how to unlatch the lock to get the fish. What principle did Thorndike use to explain the cat's behavior? The law of effect In class, Professor Dubow described 3 explanations for childhood amnesia. He stated each of the following EXCEPT for: Motor neurons were not fully formed by age 3 The extent to which a test measures what it is intended to measure is called? Validity An intelligence test that is intended to be familiar to people from all socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds is an example of a? Culture-fair test In terms of intelligence, the "g" factor refers to? An underlying factor that applies to all types of test performance In operant conditioning, shaping refers to? The process of rewarding successive approximations of the desired behavior The fact that rats learn to avoid food which has poisoned them when presented with the taste of the food but not when presented with a click and a light that has been paired with the same food indicates that? Some conditioned associations may be "built-in" or biologically determined by an organism's genetic material In class, Dr. Dubow discussed the whole vs. partial report experiment by Sterling participants were flashed for less than a second an array of letters (3 rows of 4 letters per row). Some participants were asked to report all the letters they saw in the entire display (whole report); for other participants, after the display was flashed, a tone sounded to indicate which row of letters the participants should report (partial report). What were the implications of this experiment? Visual sensory memory was actually shown to be impressive in the partial report condition