Psych midterm 2025

Photographic memory is also called

• eidetic memory

• Confabulation

• mnemonic memory

• recall

Interference refers to

• intentionally blocking an unpleasant memory

• fading of memories over time

• blocking of a memory by previous or subsequent memories

• inability to store short term memories

Which of the following describes your ability to identify the name of your first grade teacher in a newspaper article?

• Confabulation

• selective attention

• recognition

• recall

Short-term Memory

• lasts without rehearsal

• lasts about one minute

• lasts about one-half second

• has a limited capacity

Which of the following describes your ability to identify the sound of a musical instrument?

• recall

• recognition

• semantic memory

• echoic memory

The three memory processes are

• encoding, storage, and retrieval

• chunking, retrieval, and storage

• storage, encoding, and recognition

• rehearsal, storage, and reconstruction

A subject responding to a second stimulus similar to the original CS is an example of

• Discrimination

• Generalization

• preconditioning

• taste

An unpleasant consequence that decreases the frequency of the response that produced it is called

• negative reinforcement

• Punishment

• classical conditioning

• avoidance learning

To play basketball, several response chains are organized into

• Response patterns

• Response shapes

• Variable intervals

• Cognitive maps

A child saying “daddy” only to his father is an example of

• Extinction

• Generalization

• Discrimination

• An unconditioned response