Learning & Memory - Open Book Test
Quiz 17, Set 1
 

 
Question 1
The most influential (and controversial) view of the development of grammar is called UG (Chomsky, 1975). The UG theory claims that linguistic knowledge consists of an inborn, universal, skeletal protolanguage, the details of which are elaborated in the course of learning. (Page 312)

U.G. is the short form of ............

 
A.University Girl
B.University Grammar
C.Universal Grammar

 

 

 
Question 2
In avoidance learning the motor system acts as a ..... system, and the limbic system acts as a ..... system. (Page 440s - 450s)
 
A.WHAT, WHEN
B.WHEN, WHAT
C.WHEN, WHERE
D.WHAT, WHERE
E.WHERE, WHAT

 

 

 
Question 3
................ refers to the situation in which a person intends to carry out some action at a future time and then either performs the action successfully or forgets to perform it. Such situations are common in everyday life, as are failures of prospective memory—forgetting to make a phone call, mail a letter, or to pass on a message, for example.
 
A.Prospective memory
B.Long term memory
C.Episodic Memory

 

 

 
Question 4
Children’s emerging ability to organize and recount their life history is shaped through conversations about the past that occur in the context of their family, Accordnig to Fivush and Reese(1992) & K. Nelson, (1993).
 
A.True
B.False
C.Half true

 

 

 
Question 5
When a ringing bell is presented to a cat, it may evoke a turning of the head toward the sound source. If that same stimulus is repeated over and over again, the probability and magnitude of this orienting response decrease. This phenomenon is called .......... (Page 222)
 
A.habituation
B.retrograde
C.epinephrine

 

 

 
Question 6
................ refers to a person’s learned knowledge of facts and concepts. Typically we are unaware of where and when we first learned that Paris is the capital of France, the meaning of rhinoceros, and that 8 x 8 = 64;
 
A.Prospective memory
B.Semantic memory
C.Short term memory

 

 

 
Question 7
Evolutionary change in learning does not require evolutionary change in the neural apparatus of learning. (Page 139)
 
A.True
B.False
C.I don't know

 

 

 
Question 8
Bonus Question: 1 + 1 =
 
A.0
B.1
C.2
D.3

 

 

 
Question 9
Exposure to discriminative stimuli enhances subsequent discrimination learning, an effect known as ...............
 
A.perceptual learning
B.acquired distinctiveness
C.time discrimination

 

 

 
Question 10
Anderson and Schooler (1991) have pointed out that the sensitivity of learning to repetition is evidence for its efficiency and adaptiveness because the frequency with which information has been used in the past is a very good predictor of whether it will be needed in the future. (Page 570s)
 
A.True
B.False
C.neither

 

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