Exam 5: What Ever Happened to Behavior Anyway

To help with his high blood pressure Travis is taking kickboxing classes for exercise. Last week he got his nose bloodied by Sam, and whenever anyone mentions Sam, he gets anxious. This week he began taking propranolol, as prescribed by his doctor to help with the high blood pressure. He feels very anxious when Sam comes into kickboxing class, but they do not practice together, and for the rest of the week Travis feels no anxiety about Sam. What could have happened?

According to Wagner's SOP, in order to predict the CR that will result from a particular CS you must

When a memory is retrieved, it is thought to be in a state in which it can be changed and must be _______ to be made stable again.

Travis has a new 17-inch computer monitor with a 1.77 aspect ratio. He has set the monitor's wallpaper to be a shade of blue. After working with this monitor for a week, he buys a small 17-inch television that also has a 1.77 aspect ratio. After turning it on, he concludes that it is defective and returns it to the store the next day. Travis likely perceived the television screen as

Researchers use the term "modulation of behavior" to refer to the observation that

Remembering information is most likely to occur when the learning context and the retrieval context are

AESOP predicts that a stimulus can elicit an emotional reaction and that this reaction can affect responses to other stimuli. The emotional component of this model allows it to

You observe Andrew throwing beans at his brother Ivan. His babysitter repeatedly tells him that she will punish him if he throws another bean, but he continues his bean throwing without any consequence. When his mother comes home and has lunch with the three of them, he throws a bean and his mother punishes him immediately. From then on, Andrew does not throw beans when his mother is home. Analyze the associations here that control Andrew. Is there any occasion setting?

If in the morning you study first for a French test and then for an Italian test, and you then take the Italian test in the afternoon, you are likely to experience _______ your study of French.

An occasion setter is a stimulus that

The behavior systems approach assumes that

Many stimuli in our lives are ambiguous, having more than one memory associated with them. Each memory's retrieval depends on other cues to set the occasion for the current meaning. Based on what you know about occasion setting, how might anxiety elicited by a cue mysteriously appear? For example, how might a person who had some bad interactions with dogs be confused by the fact that sometimes dogs make him very nervous, and sometimes they do not?

Which term refers to a situation in which memories may be forgotten because recently learned memories block or conflict with access to older memories?

Your partner, Chris, is tired of being called "Pat" by you. Knowing that you take propranolol for anxiety, Chris deliberately asks you about "Pat" shortly after you have taken your daily dose. Chris is trying to

According to what you have learned about memory retrieval and conditioned compensatory responses, why would it be beneficial for an alcoholic to avoid bars when trying to quit drinking?

What do renewal effects, reinstatement effects, and rapid reacquisition effects have in common, and what do they tell us about the role of memory in learning and performance?

Based on what you know about the development and maintenance of memories, how would you design therapeutic interventions to promote behavioral changes that are resistant to relapse? Explain why your approach might work.

Because we experience peoples' behavior daily, most students have developed a set of ideas about how people work even before they enter the psychology classroom. This is very different from the situation in other classes, such as organic chemistry, in which the material is presented and learned almost exclusively in the classroom. From what you know about memory, why are students more likely to provide incorrect answers to exam questions in psychology than to those in organic chemistry?

Which theory(ies) is(are) not able to explain the dual meaning of an extinguished CS?

Kevin likes to study chemistry while listening to his favorite band on his iPod. When he goes to take his first chemistry exam, he finds that his professor does not allow students to listen to their iPods while taking the test. During the test Kevin has difficulty remembering some of the chemistry information he studied, likely because of