Psych 101 - Mid - Term

 Psych 101 Mid-Term Chapts. 1,2,4,5,6,7,8

41 cards   |   Total Attempts: 187
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Thordike was known for his work with?
Puzzle Boxes
The tendancy to perceive and approach problems in the same ways that have worked in the past is called...
Mental Set
The kind of learning that applies to voluntary behavior is?
Operant Conditioning
Short term memory is probably coded?
Verbally
What would you predict about Little Albert based on the principle of spontaneous recovery?
Even after his fear of a rat was extinguished, the fear could come back.

*In Spontaneous recovery the conditioned response can briefly reappear when the original CS returns, although the response is usually weak and short-lived.
When newer information interferes with the retrieval of older information, this is called?
Retroactive Interference.
Psychological tests that yield relatively consistent results are said to be?
Reliable.
Researchers have found what about insight?
That humans and apes are capable of insight.
What are example's of a primary reinforcer?
Anything relating to food, drink, shelter, touch, and other biologically based needs.
What are example's of a secondary reinforcer?
Money, gold stars, pat on the back, awards, etc.
PET scans have demonstrated that when you are creating a visual image...
The areas associated with stored knowledge send information to the visual cortex.
Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences divides intelligence into how many independent abilities?
Nine independent abilities.
Encoding specificity refers to?
Using physical surroundings or emotions as retrieval cues for specific memories.
According to Craik and Lockhart, we are most likely to remember information that we process at what level?
Deeper level.

*According to the levels-of-processing model, deeper processing results in better memory, whereas shallower processing results in poorer memory.
The reappearance of a learned response after its apparent extinction is called?
Spontaneous recovery.