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Questions
1. Nathan misplaced his cell phone somewhere in his house rather than searching the house he only checks the last few rooms he was in, nathans search strategy is best described as?
a. arecovered memory
b. maintenance rehearsal
c. divergent thinking
d. a heuristic
e. an algorithm
2. Why does it take longer for a person to feel a pinch on the ankle than a pinch on the shoulder?
a.The touch receptors on the ankle are smaller than those on the shoulder are
b. neurons in the shoulder have more axons than those in the ankle do
c. action potentials in the ankle must travel farther to get to the brain than those in the shoulder must travel
d. the ratio of neurons to glial cells is greater in the shoulder than on the ankle
e. neurons in the shoulder have thicker myelin sheets than neurons in the ankle do
3. Which of the following is the process by which light is changed from energy to neural impulses?
a. perception
b. adaption
c. integration
d. transduction
e. accommodator
4. In which of the following situations is it most likely that an observer will initiate the behavior of the model?
a.The observer is informed that there will be a test on the model's behavior
b. The observer is taking notes on the model's behavior
c. the observer has never met or seen the model
d. the observer makes an active response or receives a tangible reinforcer
e. the observer is attending to the model's behavior
5. The decay theory of forgetting proposes that?
a. current information is lost because of interference from previous learning
b. previously learned information is lost because of interference from the current information
c. information is lost because it exceeds the capacity of short term memory
d. information gradually fades over time because its not used
e. some memories are stored in the mind making it difficult to use
6. to claim accurately that a student's study behavior has been reinforced it is essential to show that the study behavior?
a. is pleasurable to the student
b. has increased
c. produced chemical changes in the student's brain
d. is preferred to other behaviors
e. has generalized to other activties
7. which of the following is supported by the research of albert bandura?
a. learning can occur through observation of another's behavior regardless of reinforcement
b. a reinforcer's effectiveness depends on how successfully it reduces a drive
c. given two different reinforcement schedules the tendency to respond to each one will match the rate of reinceroment on each one.
d. high probability behavior will reinforce low probability behavior
e. the conditioned response prepares the oragnism for the occurrence of the unconditioned stimulus
8. bill begins giving his son a reward every time he cleans his room to encourage him to clean it more often. according to the principles of conditioning what should bill do to get his son to continue cleaning his room over time?
a. tell him he only has to clean his room if he want to
b. stop rewarding him
c. keep increasing the size of the reward
d. increase and decrease the size of the reawrd at random
e. only give him a reward some of the time
9. Beth is an eighty year old woman who has lived a relatively healthy life an has experienced the normal signs of aging. which of the following Is most true of her cognitive abilities?
a. she often forgetsthe stories of her childhood and the friends she had in school.
b. she has slower reaction times and has more difficulty learning complex tasks then she did when she was younger
c. she has difficulty remembering the names of her family member
d. she has lower general intelligence than she did when she was younger
e. her professional skills such as decisions making reducing and comprehension of language have declined since when she was younger
10. robert sternberg concept of analytic intelligence is best illustrated by?
a. a musical prodigy
b. a salesperson who exceeds a sales quota for the fifth straight month
c.a marriage counsler working with a couple in the middle of a divorce
d. an award winning novelist
e. a student who wins a citywide math competition
11. which of the following steps is most likely to maximize performance on an exam?
a. reading the lectures notes out loud while studying
b. wearing the same clothes while the studying and taking the exam
c. studying with other people known to do well on exams
d. connecting new material to personally relevant examples
e. studying for the exam in a noisy setting to improve selective attention
12. a person who cannont think of an object to substitute for a nursing hammer has fallen victim to
a. confirmation bias
b. functional fixedness
c. the anchoring effect
d. overreguarzation
e. negative evidence
13. which of the following statements about biologically prepared fear behavior is true?
a. its easily extinguished
b. it is learned through operant conditioning
c. it takes a long time to condtion
d. it potentially leads to a survival advantage
e. it applies only to lower species not human