Exam 1: Fundamental Themes in the Psychology of Learning and Memory

In order to compile and accurately measure its effectiveness, the subject pool for a new antidepressant was about 200 subjects. The pharmaceutical company prescribes 100 subjects the new medication X and a sugar pill for the remaining 100 individuals. To ensure effectiveness, the subjects are unaware of who has taken medication X and who has taken the sugar pill. This practice is known as:

Give an example of how a parent might make use of the law of effect to get a child to clean up her room.

How would a distributed representation account for why it is natural to consider an office chair and a kitchen chair as types within the more general category of "chair"?

_____ is a record of one's past experiences.

How would a behaviorist approach to studying language differ from a cognitive approach to studying language?

The idea that rats have a cognitive map of a maze is supported by the finding that rats:

Behaviorism places the GREATEST emphasis on:

Cancer patients can develop an aversion to foods they eat right before undergoing chemotherapy. Although the foods themselves do not initially cause feelings of illness, pairing them with chemotherapy, which does cause patients to feel sick, leads to the foods becoming associated with these same feelings. This is an example of:

As one reads a textbook, one does not consciously try to keep track of where all of the information is located. Yet, when there is a need to look something up, often one has a good sense of where it can be found in the textbook. What is latent learning, and how is it demonstrated by this example?

René Descartes believed that the:

If a person learns a task by insight, we expect performance to:

Who believed that children are born a "blank slate"?

The person who FIRST attempted to develop a comprehensive mathematical model of animal learning was:

If rats are allowed to freely explore a maze without being given a food reward and later are put in the maze again with a food reward in the goal box, the rats:

"Behavior reeks of purpose" was the maxim of:

According to Aristotle's principle of frequency, the ideas of "chair" and "table" are linked because people see chairs and tables together:

The theory of evolution is relevant to the study of learning and memory because:

Who was a proponent of associationism?

Who is considered a behaviorist?

Charles Darwin proposed three criteria for traits to evolve through natural selection. Which statement is relevant to survival?