1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt Classical Conditioning Operant Conditioning Extinction, Generalization, discrimination Memory Learning & Memory Miscellany

2. THE FEAR Yola now experiences when she sees the dentist (after he hit a nerve on her repeatedly while filling a cavity).

3. What is the conditioned response (CR)?

4. Blinking when a puff of air is blown in your eye

5. What is the UCR (unconditioned response)

6. THE MACE (that makes your eyes tear up automatically)

7. What is the unconditioned stimulus (UCS)?

8. THE SIGHT OF A LEMON (after you’ve eaten several). It now makes your mouth water

9. What is the conditioned stimulus (CS)?

10. THE CONDITIONED STIMULUS NOW LEADS TO THE CONDITIONED RESPONSE

11. What is when you know learning has occurred?

12. Judy runs 5 miles a day to avoid gaining weight

13. What is negative reinforcement?

14. Devon practices the clarinet in order to be able to do more math problems that he loves

15. What is positive reinforcement?

16. Ms. Jucee uses chapstick to make sure her lips do not dry out

17. What is negative reinforcement?

18. Driree stopped playing with Joy after Joy made fun of her

19. What is punishment by application?

20. Penelope no longer bites other children. Her parents withheld her favorite dessert the last times she bit others.

21. What is punishment by removal?

22. After being scratched by the neighbor’s cat, Monica becomes afraid of ALL cats (even seeing them on tv).

23. What is generalization?

24. Several months ago Mr. Chou was bitten by a dog. While he was initially frightened by the sight of any dog, he no longer has any fear when seeing or interacting with dogs.

25. What is extinction?

26. Lots of people laughed when Bunny said a swear word for the first time. Now Bunny has begun to say many different swear words.

27. What is generalization?

28. Gary got sick after eating fried eggs. WHILE THE THOUGHT OF FRIED EGGS NOW MAKES HIM NAUSEOUS, HE HAS NO PROBLEM WITH HARD OR SOFT BOILED EGGS.

29. What is stimulus discrimination?

30. Your puppy cries when you first put her in her kennel-crate at bedtime. But you ignore her, turn out the lights, and climb in bed. After a few minutes, she stops crying and goes to sleep.

31. What is extinction?

32. How long the average person can keep information in STM without rehearsal

33. What is 18 seconds?

34. The amount of discrete units most people can hold in their STM at one time.

35. What is 7 (plus or minus 2)?

36. The kind of memory that occurs when you say “What?” after someone speaks, but realize then that you really heard what they said.

37. What is sensory memory?

38. As you are reading this question right now, the kind of memory allowing you to consciously process the meaning of the words.

39. What is short term memory (STM)?

40. Although Dufus had practiced the speech several times before class, this is the pattern of forgetting that occurred when he flubbed the middle part of the speech when he gave it in class.

41. What is the serial position effect?

42. The type of interference that occurs when you call your new sweetie by your old sweetie’s name.

43. What is Proactive interference?

44. Both Jason and Ryan spent twenty hours studying for their Chemistry final. Ryan studied 4 hours per day for the five days before the exam, while Jason spent 10 hours a day the 2 days before the exam studying. This is the person whose method of studying is likely to be more effective.

45. Who is Ryan?

46. Karen has only a physics test tomorrow. Phil has to study for both physics (first) and anatomy (second) tests. If Phil does worse than Karen on the physics test, it may be due to this type of interference.

47. What is retroactive interference?

48. This is the reason kids scream in the checkout line for candy, when the parent only gives in and gives it to them once in a while.

49. What is the partial reinforcement effect?

50. Barb religiously cleans her cat box every three days, but begins to realize that her house often smells. Barb decides to clean her cat box everyday. Now the smell is gone.

51. What is negative reinforcement?