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Learning and Memory

Susan Anderson 10 questions

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  1. 1In Pavlov's experiments, the taste of food triggered the dog's salivation. Salivation to the taste of food was a(n)
    1. Aconditioned response
    2. Bunconditioned response
    3. Cunconditioned stimulus
    4. Dconditioned stimulus
  2. 2A dog salivates to the sound of a tone because the tone has regularly been associated with the delivery of food. I this case, the tone is called a(n)
    1. Aunconditioned stimulus
    2. Bprimary reinforcer
    3. Cconditioned stimulus
    4. Dimmediate reinforcer
  3. 3After learning to fear a white rat, Little Albert responded with fear to the sight of a rabbit. This best illustrates the process of
    1. Asecondary reinforcement
    2. Bgeneralization
    3. Cacquisition
    4. Dspontaneous recovery
  4. 4Positive reinforcers __________ the rate of operand responding, and negative reinforcers __________ the rate of operant responding
    1. Adecrease; increase
    2. Bincrease; decrease
    3. Cincrease; increase
    4. Dhave no effect on; decrease
  5. 5Negative reinforcers __________ the rate of operant responding, and punishments __________ the rate of operant responding
    1. Aincrease; decrease
    2. Bdecrease; increase
    3. Cdecrease; decrease
    4. Dhave no effect on; decrease
  6. 6An animal trainer is teaching a miniature poodle to balance on a ball. Initially, he gives the poodle a treat for approaching the ball, then only for placing its front paw on the ball, and finally only for climbing on the ball. The trainer is using the method of
    1. Asuccessive approximations
    2. Bdelayed reinforcement
    3. Cclassical conditioning
    4. Dsecondary reinforcement
  7. 7Chunking refers to
    1. Agetting information into memory through the use of visual imagery
    2. Bthe organization of information into meaningful units
    3. Cthe unconscious encoding of incidental information
    4. Dthe tendency to recall best the first item in a list
  8. 8Which type of memory has an essentially limitless capacity?
    1. Aechoic memory
    2. Bshort-term memory
    3. Clong-term memory
    4. Diconic memory
  9. 9The tendency to recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the __________ effect
    1. Aserial position
    2. Bmisinformation
    3. Cretrieval practice
    4. Dspacing
  10. 10The process of encoding refers to
    1. Athe persistence of learning over time
    2. Bthe recall of information previously learned
    3. Cgetting information into memory
    4. Da clear memory of an emotionally significant event

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Psychology Quiz on Learning and Memory, created by Susan Anderson on 07/12/2016.
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