Learning and Memory Pre-assessment

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Learning and Memory Pre-assessment

• True or False

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• You can learn to love eating worms.
• Yes, everyone in this room.

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• True

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• Sensory memory consists of the those long lasting
  sensory memories

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• False

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• Long term memory consists of anything longer than
  30 seconds.

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• True

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• short term memory is relatively permanent

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• False
• Its long term-memory

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• long term memory limited capacity of about seven
  items

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• False
• Short term memory has a limited capacity of about
  seven items

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• short term memory large but fleeting capacity

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• False
• Sensory memory is large but fleeting capacity

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• sensory memory unlimited capacity

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• False
• Long term memory

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• You can be in school all day, and not learn
  anything. Even the really smart people.

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• True
• Learning is a relatively permanent change in
  behavior as a result of experience things you
  may be taught in school may not be permanently
  learned.

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• Humans are the only animals that can learn merely
  by observing others perform them

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• False
• Learning is an imporant aspect of the behaviors
  of virtually all animals

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• A person can be more readily conditioned to fear
  snakes and spiders than they can flowers.

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• True
• We learn to fear snakes due to the consequences
  they produce such as sickness or death of humans

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• A person can be conditioned to fear flowers.

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• True
• Someone could learn to fear flowers if they
  produce a negative consequence for that person
  such as sneezing or itchy eyes.

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• Negative reinforcement is another word for
  punishment

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• False
• Negative reinforcement is increases the frequency
  of a behavior, whereas punishment decreases the
  frequency of a behavior

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• Psychologists agree that punishment, regardless
  of its form, has little effect on behavior

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• False
• Punishment decreases the likelihood that certain
  behaviors will not be repeated due to adverse
  consequences.

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• children imitate bad behaviors more readily than
  they do good behaviors

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• False
• Children imitate all behaviors

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• When people go around in a circle saying their
  names, their poorest memories (least like to
  remember the persons name) are for what was said
  by the person just before them.

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• False
• They will remember the names of those at the
  beginning and the end

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• Memory aids are no more useful than simple
  rehearsal of information.

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• False

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• Memory storage is never automatic, it always
  takes effort.

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• The hour before sleep is a good time to
  commitment information to memory.

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• True

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• How confident eyewitnesses are about what they
  saw is an important predictor of their accuracy.

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• False
• People often do not remember details of events
  and fill in the missing gaps with the consistent
  knowledge they have about what is going on

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• When people learn something while intoxicated,
  they recall it best when they are again
  intoxicated.

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• True