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PSYC 101 Final Exam test bank Newest 2025
featuring 400 accurate and verified questions covering
foundational psychology topics including learning,
memory, development, personality, abnormal
psychology, and research methods.
Derek is conducting research with chimpanzees and realizes that
when the chimps' behaviors lead to some sort of satisfaction,
they repeat those behaviors. Derek's observations are most
consistent with - ANSWER-the law of effect.
Jess always feels hungry at 7:00 PM. Maggie decides to play a
particular song for Jess at 6:59 PM for several nights in a row.
One night, Maggie plays the song at 5:30 PM and Jess says,
"Huh . . . I suddenly feel hungry." In this situation, classical
conditioning occurred because - ANSWER-Maggie paired a
neutral stimulus, a song, with an unconditioned stimulus, a
certain time of day, when Jess always felt hungry.
If you are trying to use classical conditioning to train your pet
mouse to be afraid of a flashing light, you will most likely be
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successful if you - ANSWER-pair the light with an electric
shock.
Whenever baby Colin cries, his mother picks him up. This stops
Colin from crying. In turn, this makes Colin's mother pick him
up more often. In this example, his mother picking him up
serves as a ________ reinforcer for Colin. Colin stopping crying
is a ________ reinforcer for the mother. - ANSWER-positive;
negative
Professor McCready wants to study animal learning by putting
birds in a cage where they have to figure out how to peck a
button to receive food. Professor McCready is using ________
to modify animal behavior. - ANSWER-a Skinner box
Fadeke is studying for her English literature test. For each novel
she reads, she tries to think of how the novel relates to her own
life. In order to remember the novels, Fadeke is using the
memory strategy called - ANSWER-elaborative rehearsal.
In history class, Kuo takes notes on a laptop. However, by doing
this, she misses important details and performs poorly on exams.
When she asks her instructor for advice, she is most likely to be
told to - ANSWER-begin taking notes by hand.
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Aman has anterograde amnesia. However, he can still remember
how to ride a bicycle and how to tie his shoes, because his
________ memory is still intact. - ANSWER-procedural
You study Spanish during high school but then take Portuguese
when you are in college. You have trouble learning Portuguese
because of the Spanish you learned in high school. This effect is
most likely due to - ANSWER-proactive interference.
People find it very easy to put on a button-down shirt but much
harder to write down the steps involved in putting on a button-
down shirt. This difference suggests that ________ memory is
typically an ________ memory. - ANSWER-procedural; implicit
Elaborative rehearsal is a more effective memory strategy than
maintenance rehearsal because the information is processed -
ANSWER-more deeply
Sue and Mary are talking about knitting. Sue is trying to
remember the first thing she ever knitted. Mary is trying to
remember what the word knitting means. Sue is trying to recall
a(n) ________ memory and Mary is going to recall a(n)
________ memory. - ANSWER-episodic; semantic
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Four witnesses see a truck hit a small car. If they all saw the
same thing, who is likely to give the highest estimate of the
truck's speed when testifying in court? - ANSWER-Tim, who
was asked, "How fast was the truck going when it crushed the
car?"
The three phases of memory include (1) changing external
information into a neural code, (2) retaining the information, and
(3) accessing it later on. In this order, these three memory steps
are - ANSWER-(1) encoding, (2) storage, and (3) retrieval.
Ted has brain damage after an accident. Although he can clearly
remember everything from before the accident, he forgets what
people are saying to him within a few minutes. Ted is most
likely experiencing - ANSWER-anterograde amnesia.
An intelligence test that includes a verbal scale and a
performance scale is the - ANSWER-Wechsler Adult
Intelligence Scale.
James is trying to break into a safe, but he does not know the
four-digit code. To find the right code, he uses a procedure that
will obtain the right result if he uses it correctly. Specifically, he
PSYC 101 Final Exam test bank Newest 2025
featuring 400 accurate and verified questions covering
foundational psychology topics including learning,
memory, development, personality, abnormal
psychology, and research methods.
Derek is conducting research with chimpanzees and realizes that
when the chimps' behaviors lead to some sort of satisfaction,
they repeat those behaviors. Derek's observations are most
consistent with - ANSWER-the law of effect.
Jess always feels hungry at 7:00 PM. Maggie decides to play a
particular song for Jess at 6:59 PM for several nights in a row.
One night, Maggie plays the song at 5:30 PM and Jess says,
"Huh . . . I suddenly feel hungry." In this situation, classical
conditioning occurred because - ANSWER-Maggie paired a
neutral stimulus, a song, with an unconditioned stimulus, a
certain time of day, when Jess always felt hungry.
If you are trying to use classical conditioning to train your pet
mouse to be afraid of a flashing light, you will most likely be
,2|Page
successful if you - ANSWER-pair the light with an electric
shock.
Whenever baby Colin cries, his mother picks him up. This stops
Colin from crying. In turn, this makes Colin's mother pick him
up more often. In this example, his mother picking him up
serves as a ________ reinforcer for Colin. Colin stopping crying
is a ________ reinforcer for the mother. - ANSWER-positive;
negative
Professor McCready wants to study animal learning by putting
birds in a cage where they have to figure out how to peck a
button to receive food. Professor McCready is using ________
to modify animal behavior. - ANSWER-a Skinner box
Fadeke is studying for her English literature test. For each novel
she reads, she tries to think of how the novel relates to her own
life. In order to remember the novels, Fadeke is using the
memory strategy called - ANSWER-elaborative rehearsal.
In history class, Kuo takes notes on a laptop. However, by doing
this, she misses important details and performs poorly on exams.
When she asks her instructor for advice, she is most likely to be
told to - ANSWER-begin taking notes by hand.
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Aman has anterograde amnesia. However, he can still remember
how to ride a bicycle and how to tie his shoes, because his
________ memory is still intact. - ANSWER-procedural
You study Spanish during high school but then take Portuguese
when you are in college. You have trouble learning Portuguese
because of the Spanish you learned in high school. This effect is
most likely due to - ANSWER-proactive interference.
People find it very easy to put on a button-down shirt but much
harder to write down the steps involved in putting on a button-
down shirt. This difference suggests that ________ memory is
typically an ________ memory. - ANSWER-procedural; implicit
Elaborative rehearsal is a more effective memory strategy than
maintenance rehearsal because the information is processed -
ANSWER-more deeply
Sue and Mary are talking about knitting. Sue is trying to
remember the first thing she ever knitted. Mary is trying to
remember what the word knitting means. Sue is trying to recall
a(n) ________ memory and Mary is going to recall a(n)
________ memory. - ANSWER-episodic; semantic
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Four witnesses see a truck hit a small car. If they all saw the
same thing, who is likely to give the highest estimate of the
truck's speed when testifying in court? - ANSWER-Tim, who
was asked, "How fast was the truck going when it crushed the
car?"
The three phases of memory include (1) changing external
information into a neural code, (2) retaining the information, and
(3) accessing it later on. In this order, these three memory steps
are - ANSWER-(1) encoding, (2) storage, and (3) retrieval.
Ted has brain damage after an accident. Although he can clearly
remember everything from before the accident, he forgets what
people are saying to him within a few minutes. Ted is most
likely experiencing - ANSWER-anterograde amnesia.
An intelligence test that includes a verbal scale and a
performance scale is the - ANSWER-Wechsler Adult
Intelligence Scale.
James is trying to break into a safe, but he does not know the
four-digit code. To find the right code, he uses a procedure that
will obtain the right result if he uses it correctly. Specifically, he
