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No-stress Quiz 3
General Psychology
Spring 2012
1. Blake is a carpet installer who wants to be paid for each square foot of carpet he lays. Blake
prefers working on a ________ schedule of reinforcement.
a. fixed-ratio
b. variable-ratio
c. fixed-interval
d. variable-interval
2. If you want your dog to continue do obey the command “quiet” for a long time, even when you
don’t have treats with you, you should:
a. Give him a treat every single time is obeys.
b. Give him a treat every third time he obeys.
c. Give him a treat every 10 minutes if he obeys.
d. Randomly give the command at different times and in multiple situations and randomly
give him a treat every once in a while.
3. The Bobo doll experiment demonstrated
a. Classical Conditioning
b. Operant Conditioning
c. Observational Learning
d. Behaviorism
4. Which type of memory is very detailed but extremely short lasting?
a. Explicit memory
b. Working/Short memory
c. Sensory memory
d. Long term memory
5. Building a bridge out of blocks faster the second time you try it is an example of which type of
memory?
a. Implicit memory
b. Explicit memory
c. Sensory memory
d. Short term memory
6. I decide to operate on the assumption that all students will avoid studying if they can. This is an
example of using a(n)___________ strategy of problem-solving.
a. Algorithm
b. Heuristic
c. Insight
d. Trial and Error
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7. People are equally likely to notice and remember evidence that disagrees with their opinion and
evidence that agrees with their opinion.
a. True
b. False
8. The existence of savants have been used to argue that
a. There is one general intelligence that influences all other types of intelligence
b. There are multiple separate types of intelligence
c. Creativity is not a type of intelligence.
d. Emotional perception is not a type of intelligence.
9. Asking you to list as many uses for a curtain as you can tests your
a. Analytical intelligence
b. Creativity
c. Kinesthetic-body intelligence
d. Spatial intelligence
10. You take an intelligence test, then you take it again one week later. You get almost the same
score. This means that the test is
a. Standardized
b. Reliable
c. Valid
d. Not valid
11. The well-accepted two-factor theory of emotion would predict that
a. If a person almost gets hit by a car, first their heart will start to race and then they will
feel fear.
b. If a person almost gets hit by a car walking down the street, afterwards they will be
more likely to overreact if someone does something that annoys them.
c. Previous emotions have no effect on future emotions.
d. Cognition does not affect emotion
12. A celebrity actress experiences ever-increasing levels of professional acclaim following each
successful movie role. Yet with each success, she experiences no more than a temporary surge
of subjective well-being. This is best explained in terms of the
a. catharsis hypothesis.
b. James-Lange theory.
c. two-factor theory.
d. adaptation-level phenomenon.
13. Which of the following is difficult to detect by reading a person’s facial expression?
a. Lying
b. Anger
c. Fear
d. Disgust
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14. Generally your life isn’t so stressful but this week you have a really big project deadline for a
class and it is causing you to feel a lot of stress. How will this tend to affect your health?
a. You will be less likely to catch a cold this week.
b. You will be more likely to catch a cold this week.
c. Your arteries will become less elastic.
d. You will probably get an ulcer.
15. Describe one strategy you can use to improve your memory and relate it to one of the principles
of memory that you learned in the class.
16. Describe one of the theories of motivation.
17. Give an example of a type of information that you encode automatically without conscious
effort.
18. Describe how someone would solve the problem of finding the right key on their key ring if they
were using an algorithm strategy.
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