Susan is introduced to Jerry. She immediately smiles and says, Hello Jerry. A few minutes
later she wants to introduce Jerry to her friend Mary, but cannot remember his name. Based on
this information, how far in Susan's memory system did Jerry's name get?
a. It reached the sensory register.
b. It reached working memory.
c. It reached long-term memory.
d. It never got into the memory system at all.
Ques. 2Imagine that you want to improve a distractible child's ability to sit still and listen in class.
Which one of the following procedures illustrates how you might start to use shaping to do so?
a. Explain the purpose of sitting quietly before reinforcement begins.
b. Reinforce the child for sitting still on some occasions, but not others.
c. Reinforce the child for sitting still and listening for only a minute, then for progressively
longer and longer periods of time.
d. Frequently change the specific consequence you use to reinforce sitting still and listening
behavior.
Ques. 3The worldwide web and long-term memory have similar properties, such as:
a. multimodality, concept associations, and searchability by content.
b. ease of recall and high-fidelity preservation of information.
c. trend lines of crystallized and fluid intelligence.
d. certain replacement by new and superior technologies.
Ques. 4The capacity of STM is in the range of:
a. three millimeters.
b. seven chunks.
c. ten seconds.
d. twenty decibels.
Ques. 5The visual sensory register has a duration of approximately:
a. one second.
b. one minute.
c. one hour.
d. one day.
Ques. 6In the information-processing model of cognition, short-term memory is where the mind
holds:
a. a large repository of images, words, and experiences.
b. a small amount of information for processing.
c. a high-fidelity record of all that we have experienced.
d. a compact cluster of dopamine-regulated dendrites.
Ques. 7A misbehaving child is given time out. After several minutes of good behavior, the child is
then allowed to play with friends. Excusing the child from time out is an example of:
a. continuous reinforcement.
b. ratio-schedule reinforcement.
c. negative punishment.
d. negative reinforcement.