Exam 2 Review

Learning

• 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?

• 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?

• 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?

• 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?

• At 11:30, 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?

• In the previous example, the train company then stops the 11:30 train, and the 10 am train and shift the trains to 1 and 1:15 instead. Soon the kids stop complaining at 10 am.– This is called?– If they do complain again a few weeks runs a train

at 11:30 and or 10 am, this would be what schedule?

– And would lead to what?

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

• 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

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

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

• 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?

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

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

• 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?

• 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?

• Iconic memory is?

• Echoic memory is?

• Dog, cat, whale, horse, spider, goldfish, gerbil, hamster, cow, goat, pig, chicken, animals, pinto, frog

• Primacy?

• Recency?

• Some possible Priming?

• How might you chunk this list?

• Dog, cat, whale, horse, spider, goldfish, gerbil, hamster, cow, goat, pig, chicken, animals, pinto, frog

• 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

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

• After you take a few years of French, you decide you are trying to remember how to say how are you in Spanish, but can’t recall- this is

• Duration and capacity of Sensory, STM, and LTM

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

• Semantic network-

• Flash bulb memory

• 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?

• 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 don’t notice. This is

• 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

• 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

• 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?