5 Written Questions

1. (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
2. the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system.
3. memories that are recalled better when the mood in which they were orginallt encoded is recreated
4. Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher level safety needs and then psychological needs become active. (Physiological, Safety, Belongingness/Love, Esteem, Self-actualization)
5. in classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus (US), such as salivation when food is in the mouth.

5 Matching Questions

1. alfred binet
2. fixed ratio
3. shaping
4. episodic memory
5. heuristics

1. a memory for episodes in your own life
2. b a schedule where reinforcement happens after a correct number of responses
3. c mental shortcuts that help us to streamline our thinking and make sense of our world
4. d an operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior
5. e the indvidual that published the first measure of intelligence in 1905. The purpose of his intelligence test was to correctly place students on academic tracks in the French school system.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. A phenomenon that no one can accurately recall events from the first three years of life.
   1. alfred binet
   2. algorithms
   3. phonemes
   4. childhood amnesia
2. in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally—naturally and automatically—triggers a response.
   1. unconditioned stimulus
   2. unconditioned response
   3. conditioned response
   4. conditioned stimulus
3. your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts
   1. semantic memory
   2. sensory memory
   3. short term memory
   4. procedural memory
4. we are afraid BECAUSE WE TREMBLE, different PATTERNS of autonomic activation lead to the experience of different emotions
   1. James Lange theory
   2. semantic memory
   3. short term memory
   4. instinct theory
5. an acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus
   1. context dependent
   2. conditioned stimulus
   3. conditioned response
   4. unconditioned stimulus

5 True/False Questions

1. phonemes → smallest meaningful units of speech; simple words, suffixes, prefixes; examples: red, hot, calm, -ed, pre-

   True        False

2. mental set → the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences

   True        False

3. proactive interference → the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information

   True        False

4. ivan pavlov → Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936) (CLASSICAL CONDITIONING)

   True        False

5. garcia and koelling → researchers who did major studies on classical conditoning and taste aversions - rats

   True        False