General Psych Exam 2

Front 1

Night and peripheral vision depend mainly on _____, while daylight and acute vision depend mainly on _____.

Back 1

rod cells; cone cells

Front 2

Maria could not see color and had difficulty seeing in very bright light. She had difficulty seeing the fine details of objects. Maria most likely had damage to her ____.

Back 2

cones

Front 3

If a person views three lights that differ only in amplitude, the person would perceive the lights as

Back 3

differing in brightness

Front 4

Where does information from one eye cross over to the other side of the brain?

Back 4

optic chiasm

Front 5

When your psychology professor is speaking to your class, she can tell which students are sitting in the first, second, third, etc., row, in part because students in the closer rows obstruct his/her view of students in more distant rows. This illustrates the depth perception cue of

Back 5

interposition

Front 6

Michael had an operation on his right eye & has to wear an eye patch for 3 weeks. While wearing the eye patch, Michael will lose his ability to

Back 6

use binocular depth cues

Front 7

Which BEST describes how we hear according to place theory?
A. Different sound frequencies vibrate different portions of the basilar membrane, producing
different pitches.
B. Our perception of pitch corresponds to the rate or frequency at which the entire basilar
membrane vibrates.
C. We perceive the differences in pitch according to the number of hair cells that vibrate at any one time

Back 7

A.

Front 8

What are the 4 primary tastes?

Back 8

sweet, sour, salty, bitter

Front 9

The only sensory system that does NOT send information to the thalamus before it is sent to the cortex is

Back 9

smell

Front 10

The major difference between a green light and a blue light is the

Back 10

wavelength

Front 11

If a piano player softly taps a key and then hits the same key with a lot of force, the second note will sound louder because of a difference in the ____of the sound wave

Back 11

amplitude

Front 12

When we view cars parked on a distant parking lot, we know that the cars are not actually the size of toy cars because of perceptual

Back 12

constancy

Front 13

The ___________ sense has to do with our sense of balance.

Back 13

vestibular

Front 14

Adam leaves his soccer equipment in the middle of the kitchen floor. His mom wants him to learn to put it away so that he puts it away every time he gets home. Every time Adam cleans up his soccer stuff and puts it away, his mom stops nagging him. Soon, Adam puts his soccer things away when he gets home every time. This is an example of

Back 14

negative reinforcement

Front 15

The fluid-filled tunnel that contains the receptors for hearing is the

Back 15

cochlea

Front 16

The auditory receptor cells are the

Back 16

hair cells

Front 17

A variety of physical stimuli including mechanical, thermal, and chemical energy are the stimuli for the sense of

Back 17

touch

Front 18

An unlearned reaction to a stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning is

Back 18

an unconditioned response

Front 19

A previously neutral stimulus, that through conditioning acquires the capacity to evoke a
response is

Back 19

an unconditioned stimulus

Front 20

The reappearance of a conditioned response after extinction and a period of rest is called

Back 20

spontaneous recovery

Front 21

Warren’s cat has learned to purr and rub against him whenever the cat hears the sound of the can opener because Warren uses the can opener to give the cat her favorite canned food. Lately, Warren has noticed that his cat behaves the same way when Warren uses his blender.
What is Warren’s cat demonstrating?

Back 21

stimulus generalization

Front 22

In a fixed ratio schedule, the reinforcement is given

Back 22

after a set number of nonreinforced responses

Front 23

When describing schedules of reinforcement, the key factor in interval schedules is

Back 23

elapsed time

Front 24

Which of the following is NOT an example of punishment?
a. Laughing at a classmate when he asks a “dumb question” in class
b. Nagging a child until she picks up her toys
c. Taking away a child’s TV privileges for one week for a bad report card
d. Making a child sit in the corner for 10 minutes for back talk.

Back 24

B – this is an example of taking away something unpleasant after the behavior. Punishment requires
presenting something negative or taking away something pleasant/liked.

Front 25

Skinner believed that reinforcement was necessary for an operant behavior to be acquired.
Observational learning, however, demonstrates that a behavior can also be acquired as a result of

Back 25

seeing another person's behavior and the reinforcement of his or her behavior

Front 26

The process of locating and recovering information from your memory store is

Back 26

retrieval

Front 27

Which level of processing, according to Craik & Lockhart, should result in the longest lasting memory codes?

Back 27

semantic encoding

Front 28

What kind of memory preserves information in its original form for a brief time, usually only a fraction of a second?

Back 28

sensory

Front 29

The ___component of working memory serves as the interface between working and long-term memory.

Back 29

episodic buffer

Front 30

A visit to your elementary classroom might help you remember more of the names of some of
your elementary classmates because you are
a. using the serial position effect
b. relying on a flashbulb memory
c. in the same context as you were when you learned them
d. relying on schemas to enhance the retrieval process

Back 30

C.

Front 31

When an individual’s memory for an event is altered by the later introduction of inaccurate or
misleading information, it is referred to as the

Back 31

misinformation effect

Front 32

An essay exam is most similar to the ____ method of measuring retention

Back 32

recall

Front 33

If forgetting occurs because newly learned information impairs the memory of previously
learned information it is referred to as

Back 33

retroactive interferance

Front 34

The principle that proposes that the values of a retrieval cue depends on how well it
corresponds to the memory code is known as

Back 34

encoding specificity

Front 35

A person has a head injury, and as a result, loses his memory of events that happened before the injury. This is an example of

Back 35

retrograde amnesia

Front 36

Your memory of how to do something, such as how to shoot a free throw in basketball, is
contained in your

Back 36

procedural memory

Front 37

Your memory for personal facts and events consisting of memories of things you did and
when you did them is contained in

Back 37

episodic memory

Front 38

Which area of the brain is associated with the consolidation of long-term memories

Back 38

hippocampus