Exam 1: Introduction

Professor Smith wants his graduate students to determine how young children retrieve information, and determine if such retrieval differs from retrieval methods used by adults. The students should focus on:

Which of the following movements is not considered to have fostered an early interest in the investigation of learning processes?

Which of the following is not considered a "memory myth"?

Which of the following changes in behavior are typically excluded from a formal definition of learning?

Which of the following is a maturation-based, as opposed to experience-based, change in behavior?

In the 1970s, Ulric Neisser criticized psychology for its:

The impact of the field of computer science can be seen most directly in which of the following approaches to learning?

Why is it argued that forgetting is NOT a weakness of memory?

In the past, the term "memory" has been used in reference to:

Which of the following could be considered valid ways to measure learning?

If subjects in a learning experiment improved by the same amount over each of 20 trials, which of the following learning curves would best illustrate the nature of subjects' learning?

Animals are used as subjects in learning experiments because:

In the past, the term "learning" has been used in reference to:

Which of the following fails to illustrate "Applied Research"?

Bandura's "BoBo doll" experiment illustrated the distinction between:

Jones argues that a rat's motivation to run through a maze is dependent upon the rat's expectancy of receiving a reward upon completion of the maze. Which of the following approaches would most likely dispute the inclusion of such an internal, motivational state of an organism?

Which of the following best illustrates a functional explanation of behavior of the type advocated by radical behaviorists?

Which of the following statements is false?

A common theme connecting Darwin's ideas on evolution to learning processes is that:

After eating a recent meal of steak and potatoes, Jill became nauseous and dizzy. As a result of this occurrence, Jill refuses to eat this combination of food, as she believes she will become sick, once again, if she consumes these things. Jill's attitude toward steak and potatoes is most similar to the associative principle of: