Learning and Memory Pre-assessment True or False

You can learn to love eating worms. Yes, everyone in this room.

True

Sensory memory consists of the those long lasting sensory memories

False

Long term memory consists of anything longer than 30 seconds.

True

short term memory is relatively permanent

False Its long term-memory

long term memory limited capacity of about seven items

False Short term memory has a limited capacity of about seven items

short term memory large but fleeting capacity

False Sensory memory is large but fleeting capacity

sensory memory unlimited capacity

False Long term memory

You can be in school all day, and not learn anything. Even the really smart people.

True Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior as a result of experience – things you may be taught in school may not be permanently learned.

Humans are the only animals that can learn merely by observing others perform them

False Learning is an imporant aspect of the behaviors of virtually all animals

A person can be more readily conditioned to fear snakes and spiders than they can flowers.

True We learn to fear snakes due to the consequences they produce – such as sickness or death of humans

A person can be conditioned to fear flowers.

True Someone could learn to fear flowers if they produce a negative consequence for that person – such as sneezing or itchy eyes.

Negative reinforcement is another word for punishment

False Negative reinforcement is increases the frequency of a behavior, whereas punishment decreases the frequency of a behavior

Psychologists agree that punishment, regardless of its form, has little effect on behavior

False Punishment decreases the likelihood that certain behaviors will not be repeated due to adverse consequences.

children imitate bad behaviors more readily than they do good behaviors

False Children imitate all behaviors

When people go around in a circle saying their names, their poorest memories (least like to remember the person’s name) are for what was said by the person just before them.

False They will remember the names of those at the beginning and the end

Memory aids are no more useful than simple rehearsal of information.

False

Memory storage is never automatic, it always takes effort.

The hour before sleep is a good time to commitment information to memory.

True

How confident eyewitnesses are about what they saw is an important predictor of their accuracy.

False People often do not remember details of events and fill in the missing gaps with the consistent knowledge they have about what is going on

When people learn something while intoxicated, they recall it best when they are again intoxicated.

True