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CI 152
Test #1 Q&A
Question | Answer |
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What allows one to do one thing automatically while thinking of another? | multiple coding |
Which is true of all behavioral theories of learning? | all learning results from trial and error |
The teacher asks a question, but the students are distracted by a noise. What is the noise? | an effective stimulus |
Students learn to become quiet by responding to colored cards the teacher holds up. What is the card? | a conditioned stimulus |
Manipulating students by saying, "I like the way Adrian is working." relies upon which theory? | social learning |
Superstitious behavior can be explained how? | coincidental reinforcement |
According to Kohler, mental restructuring following periods of reflection leads to what? | forming a gestalt |
Teaching about poetry, then sonnets, then Elizabethan sonnets is consistent with which? | the organization of the knowledge structure |
According to the principle of frequency, if you correct a student who has consistently made a carrying mistake in a multiplication problem and reinforce the correction, what will occur next time? | the student will make another carrying mistake |
Whenever students chew gum in class they receive an extra homework assignment. if the student then chews MORE often, the effect the assignment is apparently which? | positive reinforcement |
If the student who gets more assignments when they chew gum chews LESS often, the effect is which? | positive punishment |
Social learning allows for the following possibilities, except which? | complex learning must involve direct experience |
If we take this test in a new classroom, which theory explains why responses are more difficult? | contiguity theory |
If a teacher's reprimand appears to diminish student's misbehavior, what is the reprimand? | a punisher |
Which theory argues that the stimulus/response connection is at maximum strength after 1 trial? | contiguity theory |
Which of the following represents a logical inconsistency in operant conditioning? | some voluntary behaviors need no reinforcer in order to be maintained |
If my students are conditioned to associate learning theory with a sense of well-being, before the conditioning, how would one describe the learning theory? | a previously neutral stimulus |
Every time Pam sits next to Susan, Pam smiles at her and says, "Hi!" This makes Susan smile in return. After a few months of this, Susan smiles whenever Pam sits next to her, even if Pam says nothing. The conditioned response in this example is: | Pam's sitting next to Susan |
Every time Pam sits next to Susan, Pam smiles at her and says, "Hi!" This makes Susan smile in return. After a few months of this, Susan smiles whenever Pam sits next to her, even if Pam says nothing. The UNconditioned response in this example is: | Susan's smiling |
Every time Pam sits next to Susan, Pam smiles at her and says, "Hi!" This makes Susan smile in return. After a few months of this, Susan smiles whenever Pam sits next to her, even if Pam says nothing. The conditioned response in this example is: | Susan's smiling |
The concept of the structure of memory is common to Gestalt theory and which of the following? | rote v. meaningful learning |
The development of a gestalt occurs because of which? | mental restructuring |
Which theory explains habitual behavior in terms of what occurred last in a prior sequence? | instrumental learning |
The word "gestalt" is closest in meaning to which? | pattern |
Recreating a diagram one has observed for 8 or so seconds is a test of which? | short term memory |
The advance organizer is really nothing more than which? | an introduction to structure |
Gestalt Psychology places a great deal of emphasis on which of the following? | the perception of new relationships |
In which is the capacity for storing multiple inputs most limited? | long-term memory |
Behavioral learning theorists would support which of the following precepts? | experience is the key to increased learning |
In Classical Conditioning... | a response is elicited by a known stimulus |
A rat which has learned to press a lever to get food has demonstrated which? | operant learning |
Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement? | removing an aversive stimulus to strengthen a behavior |
Gestalt theory holds which of the following positions? | people tend to see uniformity even when events are random |
The following EXCEPT WHICH are associated with the use of punishment? | it will not alter the misbehavior |
Why is a word like "maple" easier to retrieve than a word like "certain"? | maple is multiple coded |
If a student is distracted from the presentation by a noise, where is the noise first processed? | the sensory store |
In information processing models of learning, the stimulus provides which? | sensory input |
Remembering a student's name a few seconds after first hearing it is most likely a test of: | short term memory |
One of the differences between able and less able readers is reflected in which ability? | the tendency to look for the structure of a text passage |
When we speak of "multiple coding", that is the same as which of the following? | employing multiple senses |
The function of executive control is which of the following? | to automate repetitive cognitive procedures |
Holding data in short term memory for lengthy periods without committing it to LTM describes which? | maintenance rehearsal |
Remembering the meaning of a word by connecting it to what the word sounds like describes which? | key-word |
The zoology research on which type of learning is easiest to retrieve suggests which of the following? | learning isolated from application is difficult to retrieve |
The "memory trace" is best described as which? | the connection which allows retrieval |
Which theory emphasizes repetition only because it ties in the environment with the learning? | contiguity theory |