Science of Psych quiz 3

Question 1

Bad Bart decides to use meth to lift his moof and energy levels. The first 25 times he takes the drug in his room and listens to the same music. Due to 1. he develops a compensatory response where 2.
counteracts the original Ur. He has developed tolerance and will have to increase the 3.
in order to get back to his initial response to the drug.

Answer 1

1. classical conditioning
2. CR
3. UR
4. US

Question 2

A good grade is a secondary reinforcer when you expect to get this for any reinforcer an increase in dopamine leads to a pleasure response.

Answer 2

yeah

Question 3

Samia did not clean her room as her mother asked; as a consequence her mother added an additional chore. This is an example of.

Answer 3

positive punishment

Question 4

A researcher designed an exmpirement to study discrimination.

Answer 4

Discrimination

Question 5

obersvational learning like bobo doll, shows an approach to learning that differs from operant conditioning. In what way is it different?

Answer 5

Observational learning involves modeling behavior, while operant conditioning does not.

Question 6

Recall the clever Hans example from the start of the semester…

This is an example of operant conditioning which illustrates which phenomenon?

Answer 6

Discrimination.

Question 7

Sara did so well on her exam that her mother told her she did not have to take out the trash. This is the example of ?

Answer 7

Negative Reinforcement

Question 8

Dominos is using fixed ratio schedule to get people to buy pizza. After you buy 9 pizzas you get the 10th one free.

Answer 8

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Question 9

Playing a game like Tetris when you are experienced.

Knowing who MLK was

your stomach growls when you near the cafeteria.

You remember first day of classes at columbia.

Answer 9

1.Procedural
2.semantic
3.classical conditioning
4.episodic

Question 10

According to the memory model attention brings information from sensory memory into working memory. New tending processes take information into long-term memory.

Question 11

What brain region is thought to be strongly involved in memory consolidation

Answer 11

hippocampus

Question 12

Jeremiah is studying for an upcoming exam on cognitive psychology of memory. As he asks himself “why and how, questions…

Jeremiah is demonstrating which research based study method?

Answer 12

Elaborative Interrogation

Question 13

According to Atkinson and Shifrin model, what is the role of attention in memory?

Answer 13

It moves information from sensory memory to working memory.

Question 14

Which of the following is an example of memory being dynamic?

Answer 14

You incorrectly remember that one of the seven dwarves is named “angry”

Question 15

Jessica gets in a car accident, gets knocked and unconscious, and suffers a traumatic brain injury. When she wakes up she does not remember anything about the accident and from her life from the past 10 years. Jessica would be diagnosed with …. amnesia

Answer 15

Retrograde

Question 16

Based on Atkinson and Shifrin model, what is in working memory?

Answer 16

Information from the environment that you pay attention to.

Information retrieved from long term memory that you are thinking about now.

Question 17

which of the following can be unconscious?

Answer 17

using heuristics or priming

classical conditioning

Question 18

Students dont always appreciate that test themselves are opportunities for learning.

Because they are less reliant on….

Answer 18

Retrieval

Question 19

This diagram comes from a study by glazer and Cunzitz…

Answer 19

The recency effect is reduced or even eliminated with a delay

Question 20

Which of the following is critical in long term potentiation?

Answer 20

synaptic connections are strengthened

There is an increase in number of gluten receptors on the posynaptic neuron.

Question 21

Over the past 30 years or so, depiction of adolescent smoking in the media have decreased. Reported rates of smoking adolescents have declined over the same time period…. This pattern suggests that the media may impact smoking behavior through modeling of behavior. However it is difficult to interpret this data because of the third variable problem.

Answer 21

Yeah

Question 22

In the Bobo doll study we watced in class, children who observe an adult beating on the Bobo doll behaved more aggressively towards the doll than children who watched a calm video that did hen involve the doll. You might wonder if this effect extends beyond the lab. W

Answer 22

Experiment
Correlational studies

Question 23

Memory Phenomenon on the left with its likely cause on the right

Answer 23

Memory Decay- Proactive or Retroactive
Absent mindedness- lack of attention
Anterograde amnesia- hippocampal damage
Persistent unwanted memories-amygdala activation

Question 24

A professional (American) football coach and a novice fan are reviewing two sets of photographs as a part of a psychology study. The first set of pictures depicts football players on the field in various formation of real games…

Answer 24

Memory should be about the same for both people because the expert needs meaningful information in order to have an advantage.

Question 25

Behaviorists like Watson and skinner were not focused on cognitive processes in their work, believing that behavior could be explained by focusing entirely on stimuli responses

Answer 25

Afferent neurons Intemneurons

Question 26

Which of the following is most directly based on Thorndike’s Law of Effect?

Answer 26

Skinners approach to operant conditioning

Question 27

Based on Atkinson and Shiffrin model, what is in working memory?

Answer 27

Information from the environment that you pay attention to.

Question 28

Based on what we learned about study strategies, we might predict that open-book exams are less effective in promoting long-term memory than closed book exams because they are less reliant on

Answer 28

Retrieval

Question 29

Why should we be concerned about the accuracy of eye witness testimony?

Answer 29

Eyewitnesses can be impacted by confirmation bias- falsely remembering details that confirm their beliefs about what a person who would commit a crime looks like.

Question 30

Why do people use judgement heuristics like availability and representativeness>

Answer 30

Heuristics are usually accurate and only require a small amount of mental processing.

Question 31

Based on the exemplar model of understanding a concept, to understand what fruit item you form a mental representation of

Answer 31

apples, pears, tomatoes, olives, and other examples of fruits you have encountered.

Question 32

Anger, sadness, and happiness are examples of primary emotions whereas guilt shame and love are examples of secondary emotions

Question 33

Cannon criticized James’ theory of emotion for two reasons…

Answer 33

timing and distinctiveness

Question 34

According to the Shacter-Singer theory of emotion cognitive assessment determines the type of emotions experienced whereas

Answer 34

Arousal