You and your 51-year-old mother are playing a speed-based computer game. The point of the game is to respond as quickly as possible to a set of three letters, while disregarding other letters that appear
Your mother is getting frustrated because she keeps ____.
a. pushing the button on the controller for the wrong letters
b. getting beat by you even though she is correct in her responding
c. forgetting which button to push
d. falling asleep because she thinks the game is boring
Answer: A
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In Milgram's research on obedience, what did the experimenter do when the teacher questioned whether the experiment should continue?
a. The teacher was verbally abused. b. The teacher was shocked. c. The teacher was given verbal prompts to continue. d. The teacher was requested to change places with the learner.
Research on spontaneous recovery suggests that
a. classical conditioning can only be used to condition biologically meaningful responses. b. once a conditioned response has been extinguished, a person will also stop responding to other stimuli that are similar. c. extinction does not erase a learned association, it only suppresses or interferes with a conditioned response. d. when a conditioned response is extinguished, higher-order responses replace the original response.
A researcher pairs a tone of 1200 Hz with an electric shock in a conditioning experiment. On some trials, he presents tones of 1000 Hz or 1500 Hz without the shock. The procedure he is using resembles the method used to bring about
a. blocking. b. trace conditioning. c. stimulus discrimination. d. stimulus generalization.
According to the network model, all of our activated knowledge is in which aspect of our memory?
A) sensory register B) short-term memory C) working memory D) long-term memory