Exam 2 Review

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Exam 2 Review
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• When the Dursleys do not feed Harry, and make
  him stay in the cupboard under the stairs to
  prevent him from doing magic, this is an example
  of?

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• After 9/11 we instituted the terror alert system,
  moving from blue (the lowest level of threat) to
  red(the highest level of immediate threat. We
  have spent most of the last 4 years since at
  orange, yet most people do not have an emergency
  kit with water, food, batteries, a flashlight and
  a radio. This is an example of?

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• A few months ago, I was hit by a car while on my
  bike at an intersection of a driveway and a
  sidewalk. Then a few months later, I was a few
  feet from the intersection of GB and Texas when a
  car ran the red light and would have hit me if I
  had entered the intersection. Since these two
  incidents, I have become very careful when ever a
  car is nearby, and I make eye contact with the
  drivers, even if they are stopped to make sure
  they see me. This is an example of?

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• Often when Martha takes her 2-yr old to the
  Megalomart to get groceries, she screams and
  screams until Martha finally buys her a barbie
  doll to keep her quiet.
• What kind of conditioning is this?
• Mom is getting what reinforcement/punishment
  type?
• What about her child?

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• At 1130, just as most 7 year olds are getting
  very hungry, since they have been in school all
  morning, a train goes through town, tooting the
  horn as it passes through. After several months
  of this, the train company adds a new train that
  goes through town at 10 am as well. Teachers
  notice that after the new train is added, that
  the kids get cranky and complain that they are
  hungry at 10 am.
• What kind of conditioning?
• What is the US? CS? CR? UR?
• What is the schedule of reinforcement?

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• In the previous example, the train company then
  stops the 1130 train, and the 10 am train and
  shift the trains to 1 and 115 instead. Soon the
  kids stop complaining at 10 am.
• This is called?
• If they do complain again a few weeks runs a
  train at 1130 and or 10 am, this would be what
  schedule?
• And would lead to what?

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• Martha takes her two nephews to the Megalomart
  and they start fighting. She buys two Barbie
  dolls, thinking this will help. This is?

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• I can take any child, and given complete control
  over their environment, the child will become
  whatever I make them into
• This is an example of

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• Why would the train example not work when the
  trains moved to after lunch?

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• If I have a FI-5min, this means that every 5 min,
  the critter gets a cocoa puff, right?

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• Critters in a maze learning study get a fruit
  loop on the following trials 3,4,6,9,3,2,4,1.
  What is the reinforcement schedule?

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• What if, instead of after a certain NUMBER of
  trials, the fruit loop was given for the first
  response after that many minutes?

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• What parts of the brain are most important for
  learning spatial information?

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• In church one Sunday, a four year old boy yells
  YOU BI____ when his younger sister hits him in
  the eye by accident when playing with her dolls.
  His mother is mortified, and drags him out of
  church- outside she asks him WHY he ever said
  such a thing, let alone in church! His answer is
  my daddy does it.
• This is an example of
• And because his daddy does it at home, but he did
  it at church, perhaps also?

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• When Ewan was 19 he began waiting tables at a
  local restaurant. Each shift he had to turn in
  his receipts and the money to pay for them, and
  then what was left was his tips. Out of his tips
  he had to tip out the bus staff and the bar
  staff. When he did this the first few months it
  would take him about 30-45 minutes to sort
  everything, and get all the right money in the
  right piles. After 5 years, he can do this in
  about 15 minutes, even after a really busy night.
  This is an example of what kind of memory?

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• Iconic memory is?
• Echoic memory is?

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• Dog, cat, whale, horse, spider, goldfish, gerbil,
  hamster, cow, goat, pig, chicken, animals, pinto,
  frog
• Primacy?
• Recency?
• Some possible Priming?

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• How might you chunk this list?
• Dog, cat, whale, horse, spider, goldfish, gerbil,
  hamster, cow, goat, pig, chicken, animals, pinto,
  frog

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• In high school, many of you took Spanish, so now
  when you take Spanish, you learn the basics in
  about a month, rather than a year. This is
  because of

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• If you take Spanish in high school, and then take
  french in collage, but you keep remembering Hola
  in stead on Bonjour, this is

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• After you take a few years of French, you decide
  you are trying to remember how to say how are you
  in Spanish, but cant recall- this is

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• Duration and capacity of Sensory, STM, and LTM

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• Being able to recall more details and memories
  from your senior year in high school is an
  example of

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• Semantic network-
• Flash bulb memory

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• My cousin sent me an email telling me about how
  eating steak will improve my memory about two
  years ago. This week, I was talking to a friend
  about how to improve his memory and told him that
  maybe eating steak would be a good idea. This is
  obviously not valid, so what happened?

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• I believe that every Wednesday it rains. And
  every Wednesday that it does, I point out to
  everyone that my theory is correct. But every
  Wednesday that it does not rain I dont notice.
  This is

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• If dementors are under ministry control and
• Dementors attacked in little Winging
• Then someone in the ministry ordered the
  dementors to attack in a muggle neighborhood
• This is a

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• If I use my shoe to pound in a nail, then I am
  NOT suffering from?
• I always order a bean and cheese burrito at Taco
  Bell, and then I go to Taco Cabana, but they do
  not have a Bean and Cheese burrito- I suffered
  from

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• When I play solitaire, I believe that I can win
  more often than average, because I am better at
  solitaire than average, I suffer from?

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