TatumPsychology2000

Psychology

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If you study to achieve an A, you are studying because of _____, while studying to relieve your fear of making an F involves _____.
Positive reinforcement; negative reinforcement
Regarding REM and NREM sleep, which of the following statements is TRUE?
NREM sleep is dream free about 90 percent of the time.
Seymour is just waking up when he realizes that he is paralyzed. He hears buzzing sounds and feels electrical sensations shooting throughout his body. Seymour
May also experience hypnopompic hallucinations during this episode.
Two important aspects of stimulus control are operant stimulus _____ and operant stimulus _____.
Generalization; discrimination.
Mnemonic techniques are
Effective ways of avoiding the necessity of rote learning.
A loud noise awakens you; you emerge from sleep confused and do not remember the noise. You were in which stage of sleep?
Stage 4
Side effects of the newer sleep medications, such as Ambien and Lunesta, include which of the following?
All of these
A series of responses that gradually approach a desired pattern of behavior are called
Successive approximations.
Roy G. Biv is taught by science teacher to help students to remember the colors of the spectrum in order. Thus, Roy G. Biv is an example of
Acrostics.
Conjoined twins, whose bodies are joined at birth, have shown that
it is not unusual for one twin to be asleep while the other one is awake.
Taking a midafternoon nap
Can help people in occupations that require long periods of alertness.
Two groups of well-trained rats were placed on extinction. One group was punished with a slap on the paw for each bar press, while the other group was not. The experimenters found that bar pressing
Reached extinction quicker for the rats whose paws were not slapped.
A puppy has begun to cry and bark in order to be let into the house. To extinguish this response, you would
ignore the crying, letting the puppy in when quiet.
Because the mind and consciousness are fundamentally first-person phenomena, the basic challenge of psychology is to use ______ studies of the brain and behavior to help us understand them.
Objective
In daily life, learning is usually based on _____ reinforcement, in which reinforcers do not follow every response.
Partial