Exam 6: C: Learning

Jared is a stay-at-home dad who takes care of his five-year-old daughter Olivia. Olivia is hyperactive and does not often listen to Jared. Jared is trying to find new ways to get his daughter to brush her teeth, which she always refuses to do. Jared has come up with the solution to give Olivia a sticker every three times she brushes her teeth without him telling her to. -Jared wants to eventually get Olivia to brush her teeth without him giving her a sticker.What should he do to increase the probability that Olivia does not stop brushing her teeth after he stops giving her stickers

Jared is a stay-at-home dad who takes care of his five-year-old daughter Olivia. Olivia is hyperactive and does not often listen to Jared. Jared is trying to find new ways to get his daughter to brush her teeth, which she always refuses to do. Jared has come up with the solution to give Olivia a sticker every three times she brushes her teeth without him telling her to. -Olivia has realized that if she cries hard enough her dad will give her candy to get her to stop.From Jared's point of view,this is a case of _______________.

Tessa is in her first year at Carleton University and is trying to incorporate what she has learned about memory in her psychology class when she studies for her exams. Tessa has a biology midterm next week and is very stressed out about it. To prepare, Tessa has compiled a list with all the terms and definitions she needs to learn for her midterm. -Tessa has compiled a list with definitions of all the terms that are likely to be on her biology midterm.Which of the following will help Tessa remember all those terms most successfully

Molly is a private investigator and often finds herself relying on her memory to do her job. She is often required to remember tiny details in order to solve a case and to think on her feet. To hone her memory skills, Molly often memorizes lists of words for fun. -One day in her office,one of the other detectives challenges Molly in a memory competition.In order to win,the two have to memorize a list of 20 pairs of words.You are asked to come up with the list of words for the competition.Which of the following pairs would you expect to be the easiest to memorize

Patricia is a defense attorney. Her job requires her to confront witnesses about the limits of their memory capabilities. In addition, as a defense attorney Patricia is motivated to make the witnesses "slip-up" or even distort their memories of the events her client is being accused of. -Patricia is cross-examining an eyewitness who seems overconfident in his story.What could Patricia do to reduce his overconfidence

Tessa is in her first year at Carleton University and is trying to incorporate what she has learned about memory in her psychology class when she studies for her exams. Tessa has a biology midterm next week and is very stressed out about it. To prepare, Tessa has compiled a list with all the terms and definitions she needs to learn for her midterm. -Tessa has a particularly hard time remembering the terms "intron" and "exon".To solve her problem she remembers the words "intern" and "exit" instead.Which method did Tessa use to remember the two original terms

Joaquin is abducted by aliens and beamed up into their spaceship. The aliens hold up two fingers in a peace sign to let Joaquin know they do not intend to hurt him. Joaquin soon learns that the aliens can communicate with him in English, but they also communicate with one another in a different "language" using bird-like chirps. As a psychology student, Joaquin is curious to know how the aliens came to learn English. After their interaction, Joaquin is returned to Earth safely and decides to not tell anyone about his visit. -For the rest of his life,Joaquin thinks that all aliens must be peaceful because the aliens he met were peaceful.This is an example of which type of biased decision-making strategy

Sam recently watched the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and became fascinated with the concept of memory and how it is stored in the brain. In the movie, the protagonist tries to forget his ex-girlfriend by undergoing a procedure that destroys the neural circuits that stored all his memories of their relationship. Sam decides to read up on the physiological basis for memory to get a better understanding of how it works. -Sam wonders what would happen if there was a mistake in the procedure and the protagonist could no longer remember anything that happened to him during the past five years.This is an example of ____ amnesia.

Dory is a first-year psychology student at Carleton University and is often teased for having a terrible memory. Dory is famous for not paying attention to details and not being able to remember crucial information when she needs it. After taking a first-year psychology course and learning more about memory, Dory is motivated to figure out how to begin remembering more. -Dory has a really hard time remembering someone's name.Even in cases where she feels like she knows the person's name,she just cannot remember it in the moment.However,asking the person the first letter of their name usually helps her to remember the name.This is an example of _____________.

Victoria has a huge phobia of spiders. Victoria is currently dating Joshua who owns a pet tarantula. Victoria refuses to even be in the same room as Joshua's tarantula. Joshua is trying to help Victoria overcome her fear of his tarantula. -Based on what you know about classical conditioning,what should Joshua do to help Victoria get over her fear of his tarantula

Tessa is in her first year at Carleton University and is trying to incorporate what she has learned about memory in her psychology class when she studies for her exams. Tessa has a biology midterm next week and is very stressed out about it. To prepare, Tessa has compiled a list with all the terms and definitions she needs to learn for her midterm. -Tessa has to memorize the order of the colours in the light spectrum for her midterm.She comes up with the heuristic "Roy G. Biv" to remember red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. This is an example of an _____ that takes advantage of _____.

Sam recently watched the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and became fascinated with the concept of memory and how it is stored in the brain. In the movie, the protagonist tries to forget his ex-girlfriend by undergoing a procedure that destroys the neural circuits that stored all his memories of their relationship. Sam decides to read up on the physiological basis for memory to get a better understanding of how it works. -Sam reads online about Wilder Penfield's experiments and was astonished by them.What was so exciting about Wilder Penfield's experiments

Joaquin is abducted by aliens and beamed up into their spaceship. The aliens hold up two fingers in a peace sign to let Joaquin know they do not intend to hurt him. Joaquin soon learns that the aliens can communicate with him in English, but they also communicate with one another in a different "language" using bird-like chirps. As a psychology student, Joaquin is curious to know how the aliens came to learn English. After their interaction, Joaquin is returned to Earth safely and decides to not tell anyone about his visit. -The aliens managed to tell Joaquin that they are peaceful creatures without speaking words to him.To do this,they needed to use _______________.

Molly is a private investigator and often finds herself relying on her memory to do her job. She is often required to remember tiny details in order to solve a case and to think on her feet. To hone her memory skills, Molly often memorizes lists of words for fun. -While working on a case,Molly enters a house that has been broken into.The living room is a mess,furniture has been flipped over,and there are broken objects everywhere.Molly rearranges everything in her mind to get a sense of what the house looked like before the burglary.Molly is using _____,which is part of her _____ memory.

Alec wants to train his dog Magnus to sit on command. To achieve this goal, Alec starts by giving Magnus a strip of bacon and saying "sit" every time Magnus sits. A day later, Alec gives Magnus a strip of bacon and a pat on the head and says "sit" every time Magnus sits. Magnus seems to learn to sit on command. However, after a few days of training, Alec notices that Magnus now salivates and wags his tail whenever he hears the word "sit." -Alec is using _____ conditioning with ______ reinforcement to train Magnus sit.

Patricia is a defense attorney. Her job requires her to confront witnesses about the limits of their memory capabilities. In addition, as a defense attorney Patricia is motivated to make the witnesses "slip-up" or even distort their memories of the events her client is being accused of. -During a trial,Patricia cross-examines an expert on repressed memories.According to your textbook,which fact about repressed memories will surprise Patricia

Molly is a private investigator and often finds herself relying on her memory to do her job. She is often required to remember tiny details in order to solve a case and to think on her feet. To hone her memory skills, Molly often memorizes lists of words for fun. -While working on a case,Molly notices that her prime suspect has a raspy voice and links this detail with the statement of one of the victims saying the perpetrator sounded like Darth Vader.Molly used _____ encoding and the process of ______ to link the suspect with the victim's statement.

Patricia is a defense attorney. Her job requires her to confront witnesses about the limits of their memory capabilities. In addition, as a defense attorney Patricia is motivated to make the witnesses "slip-up" or even distort their memories of the events her client is being accused of. -In one particular trial,Patricia is cross-examining an eyewitness to a car accident caused by her client.How should Patricia word her question in order to sway the eyewitness' recall in favour of her client

Patricia is a defense attorney. Her job requires her to confront witnesses about the limits of their memory capabilities. In addition, as a defense attorney Patricia is motivated to make the witnesses "slip-up" or even distort their memories of the events her client is being accused of. -Patricia's client is in a line-up waiting to be possibly identified by an eyewitness.The eyewitness ends up picking Patricia's client.What would be the worst case scenario for Patricia and her client

Victoria has a huge phobia of spiders. Victoria is currently dating Joshua who owns a pet tarantula. Victoria refuses to even be in the same room as Joshua's tarantula. Joshua is trying to help Victoria overcome her fear of his tarantula. -Based on what you know about operant conditioning,what should Joshua do to help Victoria get over her fear of his tarantula