Memory and Learning Concepts Quiz

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Memory and Learning Concepts Quiz

Test your knowledge of memory and learning concepts with our engaging quiz! This is an excellent way to assess your understanding of psychological principles, from classical conditioning to memory retention.

In this quiz, you will:

Learn about various memory types
Explore key psychological theories
Challenge yourself with multiple choice questions

30 Questions8 MinutesCreated by ThinkingBrain42

In memory, ________________will help transfer information from the sensory memory into the short term memory.

Attention

Elaborative Rehearsal

Reading

Learning

One key atiTibute of learning is that it

Helps reduce forgetting

Results in a relatively permanent change in behavior

Changes over time

Helps to acquire skills

The scientist who discovered classical conditioning is called

B.F Skinner

Sigmund Freud

Ivan Pavlov

John Watson

Kofi was wondering how it would feel like to touch a live power cable. He touched one and experienced a painful electric shock. He decided to never touch a live power cable again. His change in behavior is a result of

Classical conditioning

Operant Conditioning

Habituation

Vicarious Learning

Information is transferred from the working memory into the long term memory through the process of

Encoding

Cueing

Elaborative rehearsal

Attention

The psychological process of pushing out painful experiences from our memory is lmown as

Erosion

Repression

Supression

Regression

Your ability to remember factual information such as the name of the first president of Ghana is a function of the?

Short term memory

Working memory

Sharp memory

Declarative memory

Peter is able to recognize a criminal who snatched his phone some time back because he can still remember the exact place and time the incident took place. This is a function of his

Procedural memory

Semantic memory

Episodic memory

Working memory

Efo is able to remember a word out of a list of words he learnt previously because it was the only word that was unusual to him when he was learning the list. This is called

The unusual word effect

The von Restorff effect

The retrospective effect

Nonesense syllabbe

The tendency as an observer to overestimate dispositional influences (internal causes) and underestimate situational influences (external causes) upon others’ behavior than for one’s own behaviors.

Cognitive Dissonance

Bystander Effect

Bias

Fundamental attribution error

An unconditioned stimulus elicits

Neutral response

Condition response

Uncondition response

Condition stimulus

The re-ignition of the association between the conditioned stimulus and the Unconditioned stimulus is called.

Recovery

Generalization

Sponataeous recovery

Extinction

A researcher notices that each time she makes a loud noise her research subject jumps. The researcher then shines a bright light before making a loud noise. After a few pairings she notices that her research subject jumps when only the light is flashed. In this case the light is considered to be which of the following?

Conditioned stimulus

Unconditioned stimulus

Unconditioned response

Neutral stimulus

In Pavlov’s experiments, the dog’s salivation triggered by the sound of the tone was considered to be which of following?

Conditioned stimulus

Unconditioned stimulus

Conditioned response

Neutral response

Your dog loves to go on walks around the neighborhood. You begin an experiment by clapping your hand 3 times before getting the least to walk your dog. Soon every time you clap your hands the dog comes running. This is an example of what concept?

Operant conditioning

Observational learning

Classical Condition

Social learning

Which of the following best describes a neutral stimulus?

Stimulus that causes an automatic response

Stimulus that does not cause a response

stimulus that has been learned

Stimulus that is conditioned

If your heart race when you were pulled over by the cops, and now your heart begins to race whenever you see a white car in your rear-view mirror, your heart racing when you see a white car has become a?

According to the Information-Processing model, this is the process in which we process all the sensory information that we receive: _____________________________.

Encoding

Retention

Recall

Attention

According to the Information-Processing model, this is the process in which we find the information that we have saved in our memory when we need it

Remembering

Retrival

Rehearsal

Cue

The situation where old material increases forgetting of new material

Proactive interference

Retroactive interference

Active interference

Von Restorff effect

James sees that his colleague has been jailed for stealing. He decides never to steal ever in his life. What type of learning has occurred here

Modelling

Operant

Vicarious

Complex

�…Learning can be defined as the process leading to a relatively permanent behavioral change or potential behavioral change…

Breedlove et al, (2007)

Psyc Central (2018)

Hall (2003)

Mazur (2013)

Short-term memory is sometimes referred to as working memory because

In order to hold information in short-term memory, we must use it.

It takes effort to move information from sensory memory to short-term memory.

It is the only part of our memory system that we must actively engage to retrieve previously learned information.

Creating short-term memories is a difficult task requiring a lot of practice.

Information that do not receive attention at the sensory stage is not transferred into the ?

Working mechanism

Short term memory

Long term memory

Brain

This is a neo-Behaviorist theory of learning

Classical Condition

Observational

Self-Requlatory

None of the above

_________________are stimuli associated with information stored in memory that can aid in retrieving that information later.

Context of memory

Retrieval cues

Attention and rehearsal

Levels of processing

Refers to the ways in which we grow and develop throughout the lifespan

Learning

Maturation

Adaptation

Intelligence

The psychological process of pushing out painful experiences from our memory is lmown as

Erosion

Regression

Repression

Supression

Richmond Odame refusal to eat "Waakye", which developed shortly after he caught food poisoning at the campus Bush Canteen, could be considered a(n)

Conditioned stimulus

Uncondition Stimulus

Neutral Stimulus

Conditioned Response

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