2301 PYSC FINAL Practice test Major Exam 2

#1. "If a response is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated. If a response is followed by an unpleasant consequence, it will tend not to be repeated." This is a statement of ________.

#2. In this view, memories are literally "built" from the pieces stored away at encoding. This view is called _________.

#3. Suzy looks up from her lunch, realizing that Jacques has just said something to her. What was it? Oh, yes, he has just asked her if she wants to go to the movies. Suzy's ability to retrieve what Jacques said is due to her _________.

#4 An operant conditioning technique in which a learner gains conscious control over his or her own biological response is ________.

#5. Which of the following statements is CORRECT concerning the concept of sex and dreams?

#6. After Little Albert acquired a conditioned fear of rats, Watson wanted to see how he would react to a white rabbit, cotton wool, and a Santa Claus mask. He was studying whether or not ________ had occurred.

#7. Which of the following statements about flashbulb memories is true?

#8. When given a list of items to remember, people tend to do better at recalling the last items on the list. This is known as the _________.

#9. A. R. Luria studied a mnemonist with phenomenal memory. This person had several problems associated with the ability. Which was one was reported in your textbook?

#10. What would you expect to see on the EEG record of a person who is engaged in an episode of sleepwalking?

#11. The case of Father Bernard Pagano, who was identified by seven eyewitnesses as a criminal, was an instance of a _________.

#12. REM behavior disorder most commonly occurs ________.

#13. Our sleep-wake cycle follows a(n) ________rhythm.

#14. In Bandura's study with the Bobo doll, the children in the group who saw the model punished did not imitate the model at first. They would only imitate the model if given a reward for doing so. The fact that these children had obviously learned the behavior without actually performing it is an example of ________.

#15. Janie is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam, there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War (whatever that was!). Janie remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth, but time is up. As Janie is walking down the stairs, all of a sudden, she remembers the fifth point, but it is too late. Janie had a problem with _________.

#16. Someone a short distance away, to whom you have been paying no attention, quietly speaks your name, and suddenly you attend to that person. This is an example of _________.

#17. Sleep research supports three helpful hints to avoid insomnia. Which of the following statements is one of them?

#18. Judith is startled when her 6-year-old daughter, Laura, sleepwalks into the family room. It is most likely that Laura is experiencing the ________ stage of the sleep cycle.

#19. LSD is similar to which of the following drugs?

#20. Freud believed that dreams ________.

#21. In the context of classical conditioning, which of the following components "elicits" a response?

#22. Albert was a little boy who was shown to be remarkably resistant to having his emotional responses conditioned by Watson. Watson presented Albert with a cute little furry rat and then rang a loud bell. Later, Albert should have become scared of the bell, but this never happened.

#23. Which of the following is classified as a depressant?

#24. Which model of memory is most similar in conceptualization to the way computers function?

#25. How does the activation-synthesis hypothesis explain dreaming?

#26. Retrieving information from long-term memory is done by assembling information from various brain locations in a process known as _________.

#27. Alzheimer's disease accounts for between _________ and _________ percent of all dementia cases in the United States.

#28. Which technique is most widely used by therapists to help clients recover lost childhood memories?

#29. Your brain waves are being monitored in a sleep laboratory. If you are in deep sleep less than an hour after falling asleep, what brain waves will be detected?

#30. A monthly paycheck best represents a ________ schedule of reinforcement.

#31. Sleep research supports three of the following helpful hints. Which statement is NOT accurate?

#32. In the partial report method of Sperling's study of sensory memory, the participants were to report _________.

#33. The research of Eich and Metcalf would suggest that if you were really happy when you were learning math, you should be _________ when taking the math exam to do well.

#34. A psychologist asks people to recall the name of their kindergarten teacher. Surprisingly, the majority of people correctly do this and comment, "Gee whiz, I haven't thought about that old bat [or old coot] in years!" Their ability to do so tends to conflict with which theory of forgetting?

#35. Which of the following pairs belong together?

#36. If you have been waking up too early for several weeks, you are probably suffering from ________.

#37. The key to the partial report method of Sperling's study of sensory memory was to _________.

#38. Which of these is an example of what has been called infantile amnesia?

#39. What term do psychologists use to designate our personal awareness of feelings, sensations, and thoughts?

#40. The sleep-wake cycle is ultimately controlled by the part of the brain called the ________.

#41. A circadian cycle is about ________ hours long.

#42. Daydreaming, meditation, intoxication, sleep, and hypnosis are all types of ________.

#43. You spend days wandering aimlessly around a park with many different paths that end at different parts of the park. One day when you arrive at the park, you get a call on your cell phone from your cousin whom you haven't seen for years, and she says she is waiting for you in a particular section of the park. Even though the paths are complicated and twisted, you manage to find the shortest route to your cousin. Tolman would explain your efficient passage through the park as an example of ________.

#44. The Brelands tried to condition pigs to drop wooden coins into a bank. This turned out not to be easy, as the pigs tended to make instinctual responses as compared to the learned responses.

#45. In the famous case of H. M., after having part of his brain removed, he could no longer _________.

#46. You find it hard to sleep due to your roommate's sleeping behavior. She snores quite a bit and at times it sounds as though she has great difficulty breathing. Your roommate may have ________.

#47. In one study, over 2,500 photographs were shown to participants, one every 10 seconds. Participants were then shown pairs of photographs in which one member of each pair was one of the previously seen photographs. Accuracy for identifying the previously seen photos was _________.

#48. There have been cases in which sleepwalking was a successful murder defense.

#49. When Keller and Marian Breland, two psychologists who became animal trainers, decided that it would be cute to have a pig drop a big wooden coin into a box, they found that _______________.

#50. Your friend has experienced excessive daytime sleepiness. He is laughing with you and suddenly falls to the ground. Your friend is probably suffering from ________.