Exam 1: The Psychology of Learning and Memory

After a pigeon learns to peck at a green light,the pigeon also pecks at a light that is a slightly different shade of green.This is an example of:

Jenny has three children.She believes that as long as she treats them exactly the same,they will all grow up to have the same personality and intelligence level.Jenny's idea resembles that of which philosopher?

Connectionist models propose that learning and memory involve:

Which of the following would argue that the complex idea of "dog" is comprised of a combination of simpler ideas such as "furry","bark," and "friendly"?

George Miller discovered that the average digit span is:

Describe the methods Hermann Ebbinghaus used for studying memory.

The specifics of Clark Hull's equations for learning:

In a normal distribution:

If a rat receives a food reward whenever it presses a lever,the likelihood of the rat pressing the lever will increase.This is an example of:

Which of the following people believed that human ability is due to a combination of both nature and nurture?

In which type of learning do organisms learn to respond in order to obtain or avoid important consequences?

People raised in different cultures often exhibit different behaviors (e.g. ,perceptual,social,motivational,etc. )How would an empiricist account for such differences across cultures? How would a nativist account for the differences?

Who proposed connectionist models of the mind?

If dogs are presented with a bell followed by food,they quickly learn to salivate in response to the bell.If the bell is then presented without any food,what happens to the salivation response?

Gary attended a party and bumped into a friend he had not seen in years.Seeing the friend immediately triggered memories of things they had done together.Which idea about memory does this example demonstrate?

Sets of statements devised to explain a collection of facts are called:

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:

Humans and animals do not always make the same response to the same stimuli.Which theory provides an explanation for this apparent randomness in learning?

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

Eugenics is a program for: