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Psych 6/7 Test
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Psychology
12th Grade
02/07/2012

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Term
What kind of memory is of very specific events like 9/11 or the assassination of JFK?
Definition
Flashbulb Memory
Term
Baby Albert showed signs of this phenomenon when he showed fear to all white, fluffy objects.
Definition
Generalization
Term
The skill of riding your bike or handwriting is what kind of memory?
Definition
Implicit
Term
Pop quizzes are what kind of schedule/ratio of reinforcement?
Definition
Variable Interval
Term
Memory that you have but is not related to any specific event or time, general knowledge.
Definition
Semantic
Term
By slowly exposing someone with a phobia to that stimulus and teaching them to cope like in the Virtual Reality videos, is called?
Definition
Systematic Desensitization
Term
By removing unwanted stimuli, increasing behavior, you are doing what type of reinforcement?
Definition
Negative Reinforcement
Term
Which reinforcer decreases behavior?
Definition
Punishment
Term
Which are a process of memory?
Definition
Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
Term
OTTFFSSENT is remembered by just the sound of the words, what type of encoding is being used?
Definition
Acoustic Encoding
Term
This form of conditioning uses consequences, good; bad; or other.
Definition
Operant Conditioning
Term
Memories that depend on how you felt or your conscious state at the time.
Definition
State-Dependent
Term
What kind of learning is hidden or happens w/o reinforcement?
Definition
Latent
Term
Sensory memory that deals with images
Definition
Iconic
Term
Going back to your old middle school classroom or one that looks just like it will probably trigger what kind of memory?
Definition
Context Dependent
Term
Forgetting information because new information has caused a problem with remembering it.
Definition
Interference
Term
What do we use to remember phone numbers?
Definition
Chunking
Term
What psychologist is associated with Operant Conditioning?
Definition
B.F. Skinner
Term
Any permanent change in behavior is…
Definition
Learning
Term
What psychologist is associated with Observational Learning?
Definition
Albert Bandura
Term
Later in life Baby Albert had a level of anxiety at the mall when he sat on Santa Clause’s lap because…
Definition
Spontaneous Recovery
Term
Hopefully, you are not using this type of memory task usually used on multiple choice tests.
Definition
Recognition
Term
When you are grown up, married with children and decide to help little Johnny with his Algebra homework, you at first don’t know how to do it but then remember because of what memory task?
Definition
Relearning
Term
If you encoded information through how it sounds, how would you most likely Retrieve that information?
Definition
Acousting Memory
Term
What effect causes you to remember things that stick out?
Definition
Von Restorff Effect
Term
What was Baby Albert’s Conditioned Stimulus?
Definition
White Fluffy Things
Term
A problem with a fixed schedule of reinforcement is?
Definition
Extinction occurs relatively quickly after reinforcement stops
Term
Kind of memory that is of a specific event or time?
Definition
Episodic
Term
Your mental perception of the world around you or how your brain connects or associates things to each other are called ___________.
Definition
Schemas
Term
When you forget events leading up to trauma (e.g. concussion) is called ____________ _________.
Definition
Retrograde Amnesia
Term
Relating meaning during the encoding process is what type?
Definition
Semantics
Term
In Bandura’s Bobo Doll Experiment, what was he testing and what did he find? (be pretty specific, citing examples from the video)
Definition
Tested: If observed aggression caused aggression or escalated aggression.
Findings: Watch the video (don't put watch the video on your test)
Term
Label and list the reasons for Infantile Amnesia (3 categories, 6 reasons)
Definition
Freud:
1. Repressing sexual and aggressive urges toward parents from childhood.
Biological:
1. Myelination hasn't occured
2. Undeveleped Hippocampus
Cognitive:
1. Can't/Don't weave together memories into episodes/stories
2. Don't have the vocabulary to adequately describe the world
3. Don't care or have no interest in creating memories
Term
List the three PROCESSES of memory in order
Definition
Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
Term
When you eat something that doesn’t agree with you, you sometimes develop ______ ________.
Definition
Taste Aversion
Term
After I quit giving quizzes, the Conditioned Response of studying will most likely become __________.
Definition
Extinct
Term
____________ reinforcers are needs rather than wants.
Definition
Primary
Term
____________ reinforcers are wants rather than needs.
Definition
Secondary
Term
Giving meaning to what is trying to be memorized by connecting it to life is _____________ _____________.
Definition
Elaborate Rehearsal
Term
“I know this answer… It’s right there on the ____ __ ___ _________.” Describes the phenom by the same name.
Definition
Tip of the tongue
Term
____ is the number of digits an average person can remember.
Definition
7
Term
The part of the brain most responsible for memory is the ___________________.
Definition
Hippocampus
Term
When you forget what happens after a traumatic incident is called _____________ _________.
Definition
Anterograde Amnesia
Term
Describe Pavlov’s study with Classical Conditioning. 2 points per each term and 4 pts for correct procedure used.
Definition
Unconditioned Stimuli: Meat
Unconditioned Response: Salivating
Neutral Stimulus: Bell/Light
Paired Meat and Bell/Light numerous times creating
Conditioned Stimulus: Bell/Light
Conditioned Response: Salivating
Term
Name 4 reasons why Punishment does not work.
Definition
Look it up in your notes
Term
Repeating information over and over until it is stored is ____________ _____________.
Definition
Maintanance Rehearsal
Term
______ _______ is also known as “working memory”
Definition
Short Term
Term
Describe how shaping works using the video we watch that illustrated it? (Be descriptive)
Definition
Watch the video (pigeon turn)
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