According to the Yerkes-Dodson law, the relationship between arousal and performance can be described by a(n) ____
a. positive linear function (more arousal leads to better performance)
b. negative linear function (less arousal leads to better performance)
c. positive exponential function (more arousal leads to better and better performance; a lot of arousal leads to tremendously good performance)
d. inverted U-shaped function (more arousal leads to better performance, but only up to a point; too much arousal can hinder performance)
D
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In what way did Thorndike's work with animals placed in a puzzle box set the stage for operant conditioning?
a) He demonstrated that animals could learn if they were food deprived for long periods. b) The animals learned to avoid the punishment of the electrical grid that he placed at the bottom of the box in very creative ways. c) Over time, the animals became more proficient at getting out of the puzzle box, thus demonstrating learning or what he called the law of effect. d) The use of punishment demonstrated that even reluctant animals were capable of changing their behavior in ways that were contrary to evolution.
Seven plus or minus two units of information describes __________
a. the duration of short-term memory b. the capacity of short-term memory c. the forgetting rate of short-term memory d. an experimental construct for constructing memory lists
A(n) _____ reinforcer is one that has been deliberately arranged to modify a behavior and is not a natural aspect of a certain situation
A) ?contrived B) ?extrinsic C) ?intrinsic D) ?Both a and c are correct.
Evidence suggests that the naming of different categories of nouns (such as faces, animals, or tools) is each mediated by a different part of the
A) parietal lobe. B) temporal lobe. C) frontal lobe. D) occipital lobe. E) limbic lobe.