Identify the process involved (classical conditioning, operant conditioning, latent learning, instinctive drift, observational learning) and the psychologist(s) associated with it for the situation described below:

When Brittany’s grandmother gave her a toy broom, the two-year-old quickly tried to sweep the floor with it.

Indicate which of the following schedules of reinforcement is being used for the example below: variable-interval (VI); fixed-interval (FI); variable-ratio (VR); fixed-ratio (FR).

Miguel works 40 hours a week in an office and gets paid every Friday afternoon.

At a family reunion, Aunt Edna was surprised when her nephew Andrew said he couldn’t recall falling and putting his hand through a window 20 years ago, when he was 6 years old. But the more Andrew thought about the incident, the more the memory came back to him, and he started remembering vivid details of the scene. Only later did Andrew learn from his mother that Aunt Edna was wrong—she had confused Andrew with another nephew, Logan. Andrew had probably experienced:

a. repression

b. imagination inflation

c. a flashbulb memory

d. encoding failure

Identify the description below if it is a characteristic of sensory memory (SM), short-term memory (STM), or long-term memory (LTM).

Approximately half a second to three seconds

Why is it hard to determine the accuracy of a “memory” that is recovered in therapy?

Indicate which of the following schedules of reinforcement is being used for the example below: variable-interval (VI); fixed-interval (FI); variable-ratio (VR); fixed-ratio (FR).

A data-entry clerk is paid one dollar for every 100 correct accounting entries created on the computer.

7-year-old Vance spends more of each night in ______________ sleep compared to his 80-year-old grandfather.

Indicate which of the following schedules of reinforcement is being used for the example below: variable-interval (VI); fixed-interval (FI); variable-ratio (VR); fixed-ratio (FR).

At the start of the new term, your instructor announces that there will be five surprise quizzes over the course of the semester.

Indicate which of the following schedules of reinforcement is being used for the example below: variable-interval (VI); fixed-interval (FI); variable-ratio (VR); fixed-ratio (FR).

The campus shuttle bus passes the library about once every hour on average.

If Skinner’s vision of a socially engineered society using operant conditioning principles were implemented, would such alterations be good or bad for society?

Identify the description below if it is a characteristic of sensory memory (SM), short-term memory (STM), or long-term memory (LTM).

Large but fleeting capacity

What types of evidence could prove or disprove the notion that hypnosis is a unique state of consciousness?

Identify the drug class of the drug described below and give an example (or examples).

Addictive drugs that increase brain activity and mental alertness

When it was reported that the face of a religious figure had appeared in a rust stain on the side of a water tower in Indiana, hundreds of people flocked to the town. This perception was probably an example of a _____________.