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PSYCHOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS WITHCOMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Short term memory - answer-chunking is associated with...
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 behaviour. 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
, Counterconditioning - answer-to eliminate an undesired conditioned
stimulus/conditioned response connection
Behaviorism - answer-humans and animals learn in basically the same way
Milgram's experiment - answer-this is the experiment that changed the ethical issues of
how experiments are handled
Positive punishment - answer-if you don't do your homework, you get a detention
Positive reinforcement - answer-if you make your bed, you get to eat cake
Negative punishment - answer-if you get in a fight with your brother, you get your phone
taken away
Negative reinforcement - answer-if you get all a's, you don't have to do your chores (you
get your chores taken away)
Operant - answer-operant or classical: influences primarily voluntary behaviors
Classical - answer-operant or classical: key components are conditioned and
unconditioned stimuli and responses
Operant - answer-operant or classical: key components are reinforcement and
punishment
Classical - answer-operant or classical: learning is based primarily on the antecedents
of behavior
Operant - answer-operant or classical: learning is based primarily on the consequences
of behavior
Operant - answer-operant or classical: one example is negative reinforcement
Operant - answer-operant or classical: one example might involve hitting your brother to
make him stop doing something
Classical - answer-operant or classical: one example involves a dog's saliva
Operant - answer-operant or classical: discovered by bf skinner
Valid - answer-it is found that a test designed to measure management ability is a very
good predictor of how well an individual will function as a manager. This test is said to
be...
Moderate - answer-what level of anxiety will improve test performance?
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