A monkey learns to press a lever for a reward when a bell sounds but not when a buzzer sounds. What kind of training is this?
Correct answer D. Discrimination
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Which of the following must be present before an avoidance response can occur?
Correct answer B. a discriminative stimulus
Which of these counts as an example of reinforcement?
Correct answer D. All of the above
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Which of the following counts as a form of associative learning?
Correct answer D. All of the above
In classical conditioning, what is the nature of the link between the conditioned stimulus and the conditioned response?
Correct answer D. learned
When Pavlov repeatedly presented the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned response stopped occurring. What is this process called?
Correct answer C. Extinction
Which type of memory does a multiple-choice test assess?
Correct answer C. Recognition
What is the memory technique of linking items to a sequence of specific places called?
Correct answer B. the method of Loci
Which of the following is not specifically an aid to retention?
Correct answer C. Knowledge of results
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The savings method developed by Ebbinghaus to measure memory was an early way of measuring what?
Correct answer B. Implicit memory
Which theorist introduced the savings method for measuring memory?
Correct answer D. Ebbinghaus
A tumour in the hippocampus impairs a person’s ability to learn new things while leaving older memories intact. What is this condition called?
Correct answer A. Anterograde amnesia
After recovering from a car accident, a woman cannot remember the events just before the crash. What is this condition called?
Correct answer A. Retrograde amnesia
According to Craik and Lockhart, which level of processing produces the highest recall?
Correct answer B. Semantic
What is memorising by rote, repeating something over and over until it is learned, also called?
Correct answer C. Maintenance rehearsal
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According to Paivio’s dual-code model of memory, which two types of code are used to store long-term memories?
Correct answer D. Verbal and visual
What is the process called by which a stimulus is noticed, identified, processed and placed into memory?
Correct answer B. encoding
Which type of memory holds a large amount of information for about two seconds?
Correct answer A. Echoic memory
‘One is a bun. Two is a shoe. Three is a tree. Four is a door.’ This rhyme belongs to which memory-improvement method?
Correct answer D. Peg-word
When learning a newer second task interferes with performance of an earlier task, what is this called?
Correct answer C. retroactive inhibition