FSU PSYC320 Quiz 3 Latest 2021 January

PSYC320 Theories of Learning

Quiz 3

Question 1Which statement demonstrates perceptual learning?

  Professional wine tasters can easily distinguish between subtly different wines.

  A phobic patient gets used to being around spiders during one therapy session, but is fearful again at the start of the next session.

  People who live in a city have no trouble sleeping through all of the street noise.

  A crying baby becomes increasingly more bothersome to her parents.

 Question 2According to dual process theory, repeated exposure to a soft tone will lead to a:

  stronger sensitization response than habituation response.

  habituation response only.

  sensitization response only.

  stronger habituation response than sensitization response.

 Question 3The hippocampus:

  has not received much attention in learning and memory research.

  lies just beneath the temporal lobe in primates.

  is much larger in birds than in rodents.

  is known to exist only in primates and rodents.

 Question 4Rats that are exposed to circles and triangles for a month can learn to discriminate between these two shapes more quickly than rats not exposed to the shapes. This finding demonstrates:

  sensitization.

  learning specificity.

  priming.

  mere exposure learning.

 Question 5An infant turns to look at a novel pattern. This is an example of:

  latent learning.

  an orienting response.

  habituation.

  sensitization.

 Question 6Learned non-use occurs when a stroke patient stops using a body part because of:

  a lack of sensory input from that body part.

  that body part being physically restrained.

  damage to the motor areas controlling that body part.

  damage to the hippocampus.

 Question 7Since her sister’s recent illness, Anjelie has a heightened awareness of her family’s health, and gets overly worried anytime a family member appears the least bit unwell. This is an example of:

  dishabituation.

  priming.

  habituation.

  sensitization.

 Question 8Rats with hippocampal damage are impaired in the ability to:

  recognize objects that the rats had experienced just a few times.

  recognize objects if the context and position of the objects are integrated.

  recognize objects in nearly all situations.

  navigate but not in the ability to recognize objects.

 Question 9The ability of rats to learn spatial layout declines when place:

  fields shrink.

  fields are prevented from shrinking.

  cells are active.

  cells become more selective.

 Question 10When Julia and Tom met, she was bothered by his height, but after 5 years of marriage she barely notices it anymore. This is an example of:

  priming.

  dishabituation.

  habituation.

  sensitization.

 Question 11Under which condition would there be a skin-conductance response to reveal sensitization?

  playing a neutral musical tone repeatedly

  playing a quiet noise right before a neutral musical tone

  playing a loud noise repeatedly

  playing a loud noise right before a neutral musical tone

 Question 12People are generally better at distinguishing individuals belonging to racial groups that they frequently encounter than individuals belonging to racial groups with whom they don’t interact. This is an example of:

  mere exposure learning.

  priming.

  habituation.

  discrimination training.

 Question 13A sensory prosthesis is:

  an inability to identify location or to find one’s way around the environment.

  the area of space to which a place cell responds.

  a mechanical device containing sensory detectors that interface with appropriate sensory areas of the brain.

  a therapeutic technique used to assist stroke victims who have lost sensory input from parts of their bodies.

 Question 14What accounts for the sensitization of the gill-withdrawal reflex in Aplysia?

  Interneurons release glutamate, which increases the number of vesicles available to release serotonin from the sensory neuron.

  Motor neurons release serotonin, which increases the number of vesicles available to release glutamate from the sensory neuron.

  Motor neurons release glutamate, which increases the number of vesicles available to release serotonin from the interneurons.

  Interneurons release serotonin, which increases the number of vesicles available to release glutamate from the sensory neuron.

 Question 15A child repeatedly complains about having her hair brushed by her mother. After a while, the mother doesn’t even notice the child’s complaints. This is an example of:

  habituation.

  priming.

  sensitization.

  dishabituation.

 Question 16Robert Post found that after an initial stressful event triggered a disorder such as depression, increasingly minor stressful events could trigger additional bouts of depression. This reasoning indicates that:

  some individuals learn how to be depressed.

  depression is a very common disorder.

  some individuals become sensitized to stress and its associated physiological states.

  depression can have more than one underlying cause.

 Question 17According to dual process theory, when stimuli are highly arousing:

  habituation processes dominate on the later trials.

  habituation processes determine the response.

  habituation processes dominate on the early trials.

  sensitization processes determine the response.

 Question 18When prior exposure to a stimulus improves an organism’s ability to respond to that stimulus later on, it is known as:

  priming.

  perceptual learning.

  sensitization.

  habituation.

 Question 19Which statement is an example of habituation?

  A person’s car slides across the road on a rainy day. Afterward, the person is much more nervous while driving.

  As one goes to bed in a hotel room, one hears an alarm going off next door. The sound becomes more annoying as the night goes on.

  A dog owner can quickly distinguish his dog from other ones that look similar.

  On entering a room, one notices the soft hum of a fan, but after being there for a while, one no longer notices the sound.

 Question 20If the visual input to the cortex is cut off during development:

  the visual area of the brain will increase in size.

  visual acuity may be permanently degraded if sight is later restored.

  areas that normally respond to tactile or auditory stimuli will begin to respond to visual stimuli.

  cortical neurons that normally respond to visual input will be more sharply tuned to visual stimuli.