PSYCH 309 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
B.F. Skinner used white rats in his early experiments because - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅he felt it did not
matter what species he studied
aristotle's rules of association included all of the following except - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅recency
nativism is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅none of these
if a child learns the concept of "house" before the concept of "floor", this learning - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅is evidence against james mill's theory of complex ideas
According to Thomas Brown's secondary principles of association, learning is affected by - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅all of these
Ebbinghaus used nonsense syllables in his list‑learning experiments primarily because - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅they were relatively free from prior associations
if a person memorizes a list perfectly in 10 trials, and then takes 6 trials to relearn the list the next day,
the amount of savings is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅40%
Ebbinghaus discovered that continuing to study a list of nonsense syllables after he could already recite
the list perfectly - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅increased the savings on a later relearning test
Ebbinghaus's results suggest that studying names and dates that you have had difficulty remembering
immediately before an exam - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅is a good strategy
If the savings in a serial learning experiment are 75% after a delay of 1 hour, the savings after a delay of
2 hours will probably be - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅less than 75%
Ebbinghaus's experiments, in which a previously learned list was systematically rearranged and the new
list was learned, provided evidence supporting - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the contiguity principle
, Ebbinghaus's results suggest that continuing to recite a poem after you have learned it perfectly -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅will improve your ability to remember it later
One disadvantage of using animals in research on learning is that - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅some
complex learning abilities are unique to humans
Laws in the United States require that research animals have: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅adequate food
and water, a clean living environment, and veterinary care
A psychologist develops a theory that failure produces frustration, and frustration frequently leads to
aggressive behavior. In this theory, frustration is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅an intervening variable
what is an example of an intervening variable? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅hunger
Skinner has argued against the use of intervening variables in psychological theories because - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅because they make the theories more complex and because he believed that the causes of
many behaviors can be found in the environment, not inside the individual
to account for all the relations between two independent variables and three dependent variables, a
theory without intervening variables would have to describe - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅six relations
Neal Miller argued that intervening variables are helpful when dealing with many independent and
dependent variables because they make a theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅simpler
A neuron's transmitter is released from its - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅axon terminals
The __________ of a neuron receive(s) the transmitter released by other neurons. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅dendrites
The activity of a cone on the retina can provide other parts of the visual system with information about -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the color of a stimulus
B.F. Skinner used white rats in his early experiments because - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅he felt it did not
matter what species he studied
aristotle's rules of association included all of the following except - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅recency
nativism is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅none of these
if a child learns the concept of "house" before the concept of "floor", this learning - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅is evidence against james mill's theory of complex ideas
According to Thomas Brown's secondary principles of association, learning is affected by - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅all of these
Ebbinghaus used nonsense syllables in his list‑learning experiments primarily because - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅they were relatively free from prior associations
if a person memorizes a list perfectly in 10 trials, and then takes 6 trials to relearn the list the next day,
the amount of savings is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅40%
Ebbinghaus discovered that continuing to study a list of nonsense syllables after he could already recite
the list perfectly - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅increased the savings on a later relearning test
Ebbinghaus's results suggest that studying names and dates that you have had difficulty remembering
immediately before an exam - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅is a good strategy
If the savings in a serial learning experiment are 75% after a delay of 1 hour, the savings after a delay of
2 hours will probably be - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅less than 75%
Ebbinghaus's experiments, in which a previously learned list was systematically rearranged and the new
list was learned, provided evidence supporting - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the contiguity principle
, Ebbinghaus's results suggest that continuing to recite a poem after you have learned it perfectly -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅will improve your ability to remember it later
One disadvantage of using animals in research on learning is that - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅some
complex learning abilities are unique to humans
Laws in the United States require that research animals have: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅adequate food
and water, a clean living environment, and veterinary care
A psychologist develops a theory that failure produces frustration, and frustration frequently leads to
aggressive behavior. In this theory, frustration is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅an intervening variable
what is an example of an intervening variable? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅hunger
Skinner has argued against the use of intervening variables in psychological theories because - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅because they make the theories more complex and because he believed that the causes of
many behaviors can be found in the environment, not inside the individual
to account for all the relations between two independent variables and three dependent variables, a
theory without intervening variables would have to describe - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅six relations
Neal Miller argued that intervening variables are helpful when dealing with many independent and
dependent variables because they make a theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅simpler
A neuron's transmitter is released from its - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅axon terminals
The __________ of a neuron receive(s) the transmitter released by other neurons. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅dendrites
The activity of a cone on the retina can provide other parts of the visual system with information about -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the color of a stimulus
