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PSYCHOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS WITHCOMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Short term memory - answer-chunking is associated with...
Eidetic memory - answer-photographic memory is also called...
Interference - answer-blocking of a memory by previous or subsequent memories
Recognition - answer-which of the following applies to the ability to identify the name of
your first grade teacher in a newspaper article
Nondirected thinking - answer-while playing tennis, a scientist realizes the solution to a
problem. This is called...
Selective attention - answer-while entertaining a group of friends in the living room, you
hear your infant sister crying in the bedroom. This is an example of...
Have limited capacity - answer-short term memories...
7 items - answer-george miller theorized that short term memory is limited to about
Recombination - answer-mentally rearranging parts in order to find a novel solution is
called...
Insight - answer-the "aha" experience, or sudden realization of the solution to a
problem, is called...
True - answer-true or false: short term memory lasts for less than 20 seconds without
rehearsal
True - answer-true or false: according to some theories, to recall a particular event, you
should try to recreate the mood you were in when it happened
False - answer-true or false: a multiple choice question retrieves information through
recall
True - answer-true or false: confabulation can include wrong or fictional information
Feature extraction - answer-how are you able to find the answer to the question of "how
many faces can you find in this picture?"
Three kinds of memory - answer-sensory storage, short term memory, long term
memory
, Three ways to improve your memory - answer-chunking/associating with strong
emotions, rehearsal, mnemonic devices
Directed and nondirected - answer-what are the two types of thinking?
Retroactive interference - answer-dawn's old boyfriend called the other day. She
couldn't remember his name though. She just kept thinking of her new boyfriend's
name. What type of interference is this?
Operant conditioning - answer-learning from the consequences of behavior. The
consequences of behavior make the behavior either more likely to be repeated in the
future, or less likely to happen in the future
Practice - answer-repetition of a task, help to bind responses together
Positive transfer - answer-when a previously learned response helps you learn or
master a new task
Feedback - answer-finding out the results of an action or performance
Ivan pavlov - answer-he held a famous classical conditioning experiment with a dog
salivating by hearing the sound of a bell
Reinforcer - answer-stimulus that increase the likelihood that a response will occur
again
Unconditional stimulus - answer-elicits a response without any training
Learning - answer-a relatively permanent change in behavior that results from
experience
Extinction - answer-this occurs if you keep presenting the conditioned stimulus without
the unconditioned stimulus
B.f. skinner - answer-he was a big contributor to operant conditioning
Negative transfer - answer-when a previously learned response hinders your learning of
a new task
Generalization - answer-when a conditioned response is given to a stimulus that isn't
exactly the same but very similar to the conditioned stimulus
Shaping - answer-reinforcement is used to sculpt new responses out of old ones
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