PSY 200 REVIEW EXAMS ALL TESTED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is bias? - ✔✔A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather
than scientific.
✔✔What is persistence? - ✔✔the intrusive recollection of events that we wish we could
forget
✔✔What are flashbulb memories? - ✔✔Vivid, detailed memories of an important event.
✔✔What part of the brain seems to help create strong memories for emotional events? -
✔✔The amygdala
✔✔What is learning? - ✔✔the process of acquiring through experience new information
or behaviors
✔✔What is classical conditioning? - ✔✔a type of learning in which one learns to link two
or more stimuli and anticipate events
i.e. Pavlov's ringing the bell, the dogs salivate because food is coming experiment
, ✔✔Describe Pavlov's dog experiment. - ✔✔a dog will naturally salivate when it sees
food, when you present a bell with the food and the dog will become conditioned to the
sound of the bell.
In Pavlov's experiment, he was using the idea that dogs will naturally salivate when they
see food. He rang a bell & presented food to try and condition the dogs to salivate at the
sound of the bell. Eventually he rang the bell without providing food and the dogs still
salivated showing they were conditioned to the response.
✔✔Describe the Little Albert study - ✔✔Little albert was an infant that was being used
to test whether or not phobias could be acquired. At first, Albert showed no fear with the
stimuli at first. The second time, whenever Albert reached for the object there was a
loud sound that would cause Albert to become startled & cry. This continued until it got
to the point that whenever the object was placed in front of Albert, he would begin to cry
and want it away from him because he was now afraid of the object.
✔✔What is the unconditioned stimulus? - ✔✔the thing that elicits the unconditioned
response. does not require learning
Ex: a cute rabbit hopping in front of Albert
✔✔What is a conditioned stimulus? - ✔✔a previously neutral stimulus that, after
becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a
conditioned response i.e. the rabbit being given to Albert with a loud bang
✔✔What is the unconditioned response? - ✔✔an unlearned reaction to an
unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning i.e. Albert wanting to
play with the object
✔✔What is a conditioned response? - ✔✔a learned response to a previously neutral
stimulus i.e. Albert crying when given a harmless object
✔✔What is acquisition? - ✔✔the phase of classical conditioning when the conditioned
stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus are presented together
✔✔What is extinction? - ✔✔the diminishing of a conditioned response
✔✔How does extinction occur in classical conditioning? - ✔✔When the original stimulus
that triggered the behavior, doesn't elicit the same response, it eventually dies out and
is forgotten/extinct
✔✔What is spontaneous recovery? - ✔✔the reappearance, after a pause, of an
extinguished conditioned response
✔✔What is generalization? - ✔✔the tendency, once a response has been conditioned,
for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is bias? - ✔✔A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather
than scientific.
✔✔What is persistence? - ✔✔the intrusive recollection of events that we wish we could
forget
✔✔What are flashbulb memories? - ✔✔Vivid, detailed memories of an important event.
✔✔What part of the brain seems to help create strong memories for emotional events? -
✔✔The amygdala
✔✔What is learning? - ✔✔the process of acquiring through experience new information
or behaviors
✔✔What is classical conditioning? - ✔✔a type of learning in which one learns to link two
or more stimuli and anticipate events
i.e. Pavlov's ringing the bell, the dogs salivate because food is coming experiment
, ✔✔Describe Pavlov's dog experiment. - ✔✔a dog will naturally salivate when it sees
food, when you present a bell with the food and the dog will become conditioned to the
sound of the bell.
In Pavlov's experiment, he was using the idea that dogs will naturally salivate when they
see food. He rang a bell & presented food to try and condition the dogs to salivate at the
sound of the bell. Eventually he rang the bell without providing food and the dogs still
salivated showing they were conditioned to the response.
✔✔Describe the Little Albert study - ✔✔Little albert was an infant that was being used
to test whether or not phobias could be acquired. At first, Albert showed no fear with the
stimuli at first. The second time, whenever Albert reached for the object there was a
loud sound that would cause Albert to become startled & cry. This continued until it got
to the point that whenever the object was placed in front of Albert, he would begin to cry
and want it away from him because he was now afraid of the object.
✔✔What is the unconditioned stimulus? - ✔✔the thing that elicits the unconditioned
response. does not require learning
Ex: a cute rabbit hopping in front of Albert
✔✔What is a conditioned stimulus? - ✔✔a previously neutral stimulus that, after
becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a
conditioned response i.e. the rabbit being given to Albert with a loud bang
✔✔What is the unconditioned response? - ✔✔an unlearned reaction to an
unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning i.e. Albert wanting to
play with the object
✔✔What is a conditioned response? - ✔✔a learned response to a previously neutral
stimulus i.e. Albert crying when given a harmless object
✔✔What is acquisition? - ✔✔the phase of classical conditioning when the conditioned
stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus are presented together
✔✔What is extinction? - ✔✔the diminishing of a conditioned response
✔✔How does extinction occur in classical conditioning? - ✔✔When the original stimulus
that triggered the behavior, doesn't elicit the same response, it eventually dies out and
is forgotten/extinct
✔✔What is spontaneous recovery? - ✔✔the reappearance, after a pause, of an
extinguished conditioned response
✔✔What is generalization? - ✔✔the tendency, once a response has been conditioned,
for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses
