FINAL Flashcards
Suppose I give you a list of words to memorize that includes DOCTOR, HOSPITAL, BANDAGE, INJURY, EMERGENCY, STETHOSCOPE, SURGEON. When asked if you saw the word NURSE, you say yes. This is an example of:
Source monitoring error
Disruption of New learning by previously stored info
Proactive Interference
Disruption of OLD info by new learning
Retroactive intereference
Research on memory consolidation suggests that when we retrieve an old memory:
we can modify it by integrating new information into it
Suppose a child is learning to swim. If we measure how long it takes him to swim from one end of the pool to the other each day, we will typically find that his speed will:
increase rapidly over the first several days, and then increase more slowly on subsequent days (POWER LAW OF PRACTICE)
During which of the following stages of skill acquisition do learners begin using stereotyped actions when performing the skill and rely less on actively recalled memories of rules?
associative
An individual must exert some effort to encode the skill on the basis of information gained through observation, instruction, and trial and error
Cognitive
A skill or subcomponents of the skill become motor programs
Autonomous
The results of studies on twins’ performance on the rotary pursuit task suggest that practice:
decreases the effects of genetic influences
A hippocampal lesion would most likely affect which of the following?
The ability to learn the location of the cafeteria
Which area of the brain is particularly important for controlling the initiation, velocity, direction, and amplitude of movements?
Basal ganglia
Which area of the brain is particularly important for the timing of skill memory and ongoing (coordinated) movement?
Cerebellum
The restricted applicability of learned skills to specific situations
Transfer Specificity
That learned abilities transfer to novel situations to an extent that depends on the number of elements in the new situation that are identical to those in the situation in which the skills were encoded
Identical Elements Theory
The monitoring and manipulation of working memory for goal setting, planning, task switching, stimulus selection, and the inhibition of inappropriate reflexive behaviors is known as:
Cognitive Control
Research suggests that phonological loop and visuo-spatial sketchpad processes take place in the _______, while central executive functions take place in the ________.
ventrolateral prefrontal cortex; dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
Larissa is visiting an amusement park. She moves from ride to ride, skipping the rides with very long lines with the intent of returning to those rides later. To make sure she gets on all the rides she wants to go on, she needs to keep track of which rides she has already been on and which ones she has not. Which of the following aspects of her central executive is most concerned with this example?
controlled updating of short-term memory buffers
Which part of the prefrontal cortex seems to be particularly involved in working memory functions?
lateral prefrontal cortex
frontal cortex damage often Have dysexecutive syndrome
a decrease in WM and executive function
Which of the following is an example of an overt behavior caused by an emotion?
Keegan screams loudly when his brother startles him
According to the James-Lange theory of emotion:
the bodily responses associated with an emotion lead to the conscious feeling of that emotion
Cannon-Bard theory
emotional stimulus goes into bodily response and conscious emotional feelings separately.
Two factor theory
Emotional stimulus- goes to bodily response and cognitive appraisal separately that go to conscious emotional feelings.
Noah once failed a class taught by a particular professor. He now refuses to take another class with that professor, and seeks out other professors who teach the classes he needs. Noah is demonstrating:
conditioned avoidance
