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Friday, February 5, 2016

UNIT VIII EXAM...

The Unit VIII Exam (A-B) is scheduled for next Thursday.  An exam preview will be posted by next Tuesday.  You should finish reading the unit by class on Tuesday if at all possible.

Stress: Portrait of a Killer

In case you didn't have a chance to answer all of the questions...


Thursday, December 10, 2015

UNIT VI EXAM PREVIEW

UNIT VI REVIEW (252-253)
1. D
2. A
3. C
4. A
5. A
6. E
7. D
8. D
9. E
10. B
11. B
12. B
13. A
14. C
15. C

We will take the UNIT VI EXAM in class on Monday (December 14).  The exam will consist of 35 multiple-choice questions.  Ten of these questions are below.

QUESTION ONE
After Pavlov had conditioned a dog to salivate to a tone, he repeatedly sounded the tone without presenting the food. As a result, ________ occurred.

QUESTION TWO
In a well-known experiment, preschool children pounded and kicked a large inflated Bobo doll that an adult had just beaten on. This experiment served to illustrate the importance of __________.

QUESTION THREE
In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, infants develop a fear of roses after roses are presented with electric shock. In this fictional example, the presentation of the roses is the __________.

QUESTION FOUR
Coffee shops that reward customers with one free cup of coffee after every ten coffee purchases are using a ________ reinforcement schedule.

QUESTION FIVE
A fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement is one in which a response is reinforced only after a(n) __________.

QUESTION SIX
Little Albert was conditioned by John B. Watson to fear furry white rats. After conditioning, Albert also showed fear to rabbits, dogs, and fur coats. This best illustrates __________.

QUESTION SEVEN
Purchasing state lottery tickets is reinforced with monetary winnings on a ________ schedule.

QUESTION EIGHT
Who introduced the term behaviorism?

QUESTION NINE
Extinction occurs when a ________ is no longer paired with a ________.

QUESTION TEN
B. F. Skinner's work elaborated what E. L. Thorndike had called __________.

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

WRAPPING UP UNIT VI

We have a reading quiz today (12/8/15)
We have a vocabulary quiz over these terms on Thursday (12/10/15)
We will take the UNIT VI EXAM on Monday of next week (12/14/15)

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

UNIT IV VOCABULARY

Take a minute to check out the quizlet page.  It is entirely possible that we will NOT take a vocabulary quiz this unit.

Sunday, October 18, 2015

UNIT III EXAM PREVIEW

Page 64-65
1.C  2.A  3.D  4.B  5.A  6.A  7.E  8.E  9.A  10.D  11.B  12.A  13.A  14.C  15.B

Page 92-93
1.E  2.B  3.E  4.B  5.D  6.A  7.A  8.C  9.C  10.D  11.C  12.E  13.C  14.C  15.BS

QUESTION ONE
Direct stimulation of the motor cortex would be most likely to result in __________.

QUESTION TWO
Reuptake refers to the __________.

QUESTION THREE
The slowdown of neural communication in multiple sclerosis involves a degeneration of the __________.

QUESTION FOUR
Alzheimer's disease is most closely linked to the deterioration of neurons that produce __________.

QUESTION FIVE
Which brain area is primarily involved with reading aloud?

QUESTION SIX
An undersupply of serotonin is most closely linked to __________.

QUESTION SEVEN
Schizophrenia is most closely linked with excess receptor activity for the neurotransmitter __________.

QUESTION EIGHT
Severing a cat's reticular formation from higher brain regions causes the cat to __________.

QUESTION NINE
Neurotransmitters are released from vesicles located on knoblike terminals at the end of __________.

QUESTION TEN
The chemical messengers released into the spatial junctions between neurons are called __________.