PSYC 1001 EFG. Come to the PASS workshop with your mock exam complete. During the workshop you can work with other students to review your work.

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1 It is most beneficial to you to write this mock midterm UNDER EXAM CONDITIONS. This means: Complete the midterm in 70 minutes. Work on your own. Keep your notes and textbook closed. Attempt every question. After the time limit, go back over your work with a different colour or on a separate piece of paper and try to do the questions you are unsure of. Record your ideas in the margins to remind yourself of what you were thinking when you take it up at PASS. The purpose of this mock exam is to give you practice answering questions in a timed setting and to help you to gauge which aspects of the course content you know well and which are in need of further development and review. Use this mock exam as a learning tool in preparing for the actual exam. Please note: Come to the PASS workshop with your mock exam complete. During the workshop you can work with other students to review your work. Often, there is not enough time to review the entire exam in the PASS workshop. Decide which questions you most want to review the Facilitator may ask students to vote on which questions they want to discuss in detail. Facilitators do not bring copies of the mock exam to the session. Please print out and complete the exam before you attend. Facilitators do not produce or distribute an answer key for mock exams. Facilitators help students to work together to compare and assess the answers they have. If you are not able to attend the PASS workshop, you can work alone or with others in the class. Good Luck writing the Mock Exam!! Dates and locations of mock exam take-up: Wednesday, December 6 th 6:00pm-8:00pm in ME 3380 Thursday, December 7 th 6:00pm-8:00pm in AT 102 Saturday, December 16 th 1:30pm 3:30pm in ME 3380

2 1. Imagine that you are in your backyard when you hear a loud banging noise from your neighbor's yard. The unusual sound immediately draws your attention, and you wonder what is going on or what might be making the noise. Over the next few days, the banging noise continues at a regular and constant pace. Eventually, you just tune out the noise. What are you doing? a. Sensitizing b. Habituating c. Learning d. Classical Conditioning 2. The first kid in line starts crying because of the pain of the needle piercing through his body. All kids down the line start to cry when the nurse grabs their arm, even before they see the needle. What is UCS, CS, UCR, CR, respectively? a. Crying, pain of the needle, nurse grabbing arm crying b. Pain of the needle, seeing the needle, crying, crying c. Pain of the needle, nurse grabbing arm, seeing the needle, crying d. Pain of the needle, nurse grabbing arm, crying, crying 3. What is true about the conditioned and unconditioned response? a. They are always the same response. b. The cause of the response is different. c. The unconditioned response is something that was never taught. d. All of the above. 4. In the classical conditioning experiment that Ivan Pavlov conducted, which aspect was previously a neutral stimulus? a. The food b. The food and the bell c. The bell d. Neither the bell, nor the food. 5. Maria tries to conduct a classical conditioning experiment by training her dogs just like Ivan Pavlov did. She pairs food with the response, she does this consistently and she ensures that the dogs get the food eventually after the sound of the bell. What is Maria doing wrong? a. Maria does not display good contiguity. b. Maria does not display intensity in the UCS. c. Maria has no contingency. d. Maria failing in contiguity, contingency and intensity.

3 6. The Little Albert B experiment was a representation of what? a. Demonstrated how phobias can be learned through operant conditioning. b. Demonstrated how phobias can be learned through classical contradictions. c. Demonstrated how fears can be learned through classical conditioning. d. Demonstrated how phobias can be learned through observations. 7. Sam is speeding on the highway and gets pulled over by a police officer who gives him a speeding ticket and gives him three demerit points. This makes Sam really upset. What did the police officer do? a. By taking something away from Sam, the police officer used negative punishment to strengthen Sam s behaviour. b. By taking something away from Sam, the police officer used positive punishment to weaken Sam s behaviour. c. By adding an aversive stimulus, the policer officer used a positive punishment to weaken Sam s behaviour. d. By adding an appetitive stimulus, the police office used a positive punishment to weaken Sam s behaviour. 8. If you are conducting an experiment on rats where they have to navigate through a maze. It is best to train the rat with a highly desirable treat like peanut butter, rather than a piece of broccoli. The peanut butter is a. An aversive stimulus b. A discriminative stimulus c. A reinforcing mechanism d. All of the above. 9. What is true about interval and ratio schedule of reinforcement? a. Interval is based on reinforcing based on number of responses, where as ratio reinforces after a certain period time of time has elapsed. b. Ratio is based on reinforcing based on number of responses, where as interval reinforces after a certain period time of time has elapsed. c. In a fixed interval, a reward can be given every 5 minutes, whereas in fixed ratio a reward is given every time the mouse presses the lever. d. Both b and c 10. What is NOT true about the Garcia and Koelling experminet? a. They took a look at the conditioning of flavour aversions. b. The independent variable was rat s ability to learn pairings of external stimuli with internal stimuli. c. The dependent variable was the amount of water the rats would drink before the pairing. d. The sipping of water was paired with either a sugary taste or a buzzing noise with a flashing light.

4 11. From the following scenarios, which one would be the most effective in observed learning? a. A female child observes her female teacher treat other people very nicely. b. A male child observes his female friend play with toy cars a particular way. c. A 10-year male child observes his 10-year old male friend bully other people. d. All of the above. 12. Jenny and Kim are working on puzzles individually. Jenny is simply lining the pieces up in a straight line, whereas Kim is trying to fit the appropriate pieces together. The teacher comes over and rewards Kim for her effort by giving her a stickers and says Excellent job Kim! I love that you re trying to fit the pieces together.. Jenny over hears and begins to fit the pieces together. How did Jenny learn this? a. Extrinsic reinforcement b. Varying reinforcement c. Vicarious reinforcement d. Intrinsic reinforcement 13. David is shown a pen for 10 seconds and is then the pen is taken away. David is now asked to describe what the pen looked like, so he closes his eyes and accesses which type of memory? a. Iconic memory, a form of physical memory that is held for a brief amount of time. b. Echoic memory, a form of sensory memory that is held for a brief amount of time. c. Iconic memory, a form of sensory memory that is held for a long amount of time. d. Echoic memory, a form of physical memory held for a brief amount of time. e. None of the above. 14. Your mom gives you a list of items to purchase at the grocery store. She insists you write a list, but you re confident that you ll remember it all by memory. She says that she needs: eggs, milk, chocolate chip cookies, orange juice, marshmallows, apples, bananas, frozen pizza, crackers and bread. You get to the store and suddenly you realize you forgot some parts of the list. Based off the primacy effect, which items are you most likely to forget? a. Orange juice, marshmallows, apples. b. Eggs, milk, chocolate chip cookies. c. Eggs, marshmallows and bread. d. Frozen pizza, crackers and bread. 15. Ariel is finally able to memorize her telephone number and home address after moving intro her new apartment. Through, Ariel processed information in her and transferred it to her. a. Correction, long term memory, short term memory b. Consolidation, semantic memory, episodic memory c. Validation, short term memory, long term memory d. Consolidation, short term memory, long term memory.

5 16. What is the most effective way we can hold a series of items in our short-term memory? a. Engage in rehearsal by using our working memory b. Engage in rehearsal by using our long-term memory c. Engage in retrieval by using our long-term memory d. Engage in retrieval by using our sensory memory 17. Remembering what you wore on the first day of school is an example of. Where as knowing the capital city for all the provinces and territories of Canada is an example of. a. Episodic memory and Sentimental memory b. Effective memory and Sensitive memory c. Effective memory and Semantic Memory d. Episodic memory and Semantic Memory 18. Lilly has a very difficult time answering questions about her childhood memories. She fails to recall the old days. Her friend, Annie, remembers many of her childhood memories, but cannot remember the fact that she spent an entire day yesterday with her grandkids playing board games and baking cookies. What s going on with Lilly and Annie? a. They are both suffering from retrograde amnesia. b. They are both suffering from anterograde amnesia. c. Lilly is suffering retrograde amnesia and Annie is suffering anterograde amnesia. d. Lilly is suffering retrospective amnesia and Annie is suffering from intermittent amnesia. 19. Kyle called his ex-girlfriend by his new girlfriend s name. What is this an example of? a. Retroactive interference b. Proactive interference c. Recall interference d. Protective interference 20. Which studies/situations highlight the fact that recall is not always perfect? a. The Misinformation Effect experiment where Elizabeth Lofts demonstrated the effects of leading questions. b. The False Memories experiment where Ceci and Bruck demonstrated that children would agree with an event happening even if it did not. c. Nowadays, police interviews are geared in such a way that leading questions are omitted so that there is no misinformation effect. d. All of the above.

6 21. Several people in America refuse the fact that former President Barack Obama was born in the United States, even though there has been proof with legal documents that he really was born there. This is an example of a. Overconfidence bias b. Confirmation bias c. Belief perseverance d. Semantic disagreement 22. You receive a letter from a publisher that is going to publish your short story. You tell a friend that you knew that they would publish it. However, the friend reminds you that before you received the letter, you had told him that you were very uncertain about whether the publisher would accept your short story for publication. What does this say about your decision making? a. You make decisions based on a hindsight bias. b. Yo.u view events as more predictable than they really are. c. You recall information that conforms to you. d. You demonstrate an inconsistency. e. Only a and b f. Only a,b,d 23. Sara eats one M&M at a time until she has no more M&M s left. This takes a long time and she also feels pretty sick. The next time she buys a bag of M&M s, she invites over 5 of her friends. Each friend eats one M&M each, then repeating until there are no more M&M s left. What is this method of eating the M&M s analogous to? a. Parallel processing b. Serial processing c. Multi processing d. None of the above 24. Chinese room argument demonstrates syntax, but not semantics. What is the difference between the two? a. Semantic is looking at the rules, whereas syntax is focusing on the meaning behind it. b. Syntax is meaning and rules together, whereas semantic is only meaning. c. Semantic is considering meaning, whereas syntax is rule based. d. Semantic and syntax are the same thing. 25. You go to the mall and your friend seems to focus on the small details such as the doors, escalators, different shops and the various seating areas. What dimension of cognitive style do they have? a. Field dependent, which also means that they re quite social as well. b. Field independent, which also means that they re quite reserved and less social. c. Field independent, which also means they re quite social as well. d. Field dependent, which also means that they re quite reserved and less social.

7 26. Tommy and Jimmy are best friends and do everything together. However, when they do their homework together, Tommy avoids all the questions that make him second guess himself and uncertain. Whereas Jimmy loves to solve uncertainty and finds all the answers. What can we say about Tommy and Jimmy. a. Tommy is field independent, and Jimmy is field dependent. b. Tommy is certainty oriented, and Jimmy is uncertainty oriented. c. Tommy engages in serial processing and Jimmy engages in parallel processing. d. Jimmy is more intelligent than Tommy. 27. A business team will have the most successful and functional working group if: a. There are only field dependent people. b. There are only field independent people. c. They have more field dependent than field independent people. d. They have an equal number of field independent and field dependent people. 28. The activity in our brain continuously fluctuates when we sleep. In stage one, the transition between sleep and wakefulness we experience activity. In stage two we see the activity being disrupted by and. By stage three and four we have a dominance of activity, which is known as. a. Delta, K tubules, Spindle fascicles, Theta, Fast-wave sleep. b. Theta, sleep spindles, T complexes, Delta, Slow-wave sleep. c. Delta, K complexes, sleep spindles, Delta, Slow-wave sleep. d. Theta, sleep spindles, K complexes, Delta, Slow-wave sleep. 29. What is somnambulism? a. Sleep talking. b. Sleep walking. c. Another word for insomnia. d. It is when REM sleep transitions to non-rem sleep 30. What is true about REM sleep? a. REM has Beta and Theta activity. b. It is the period where we dream the most and enter muscular paralysis. c. REM does not take place in stages 1 4. d. Antidepressant drugs suppress REM sleep. e. All of the above. 31. What does the psychoanalytical approach about dreaming tell us? a. That dreams represent an inner conflict. b. Analyzing dreams does not tell us about ourselves. c. The latent content are our conscious desires. d. The manifest content is hidden meaning.

8 32. What are the three levels of dream interpretation proposed by Sigmund Freud? What did Carl Jung add? a. The conscious, which is governed by the id. Preconscious, which is accessible on demand. Personal conscious, which is half forgotten memories. Jung added the fourth level known was collective unconscious. b. The conscious, which is governed by the ego. Preconscious, which is accessible on demand. Personal conscious, which is half forgotten memories. Jung added the fourth level known was collective conscious. c. The conscious, which is governed by the ego. Preconscious, which is accessible on demand. Personal conscious, which is half forgotten memories. Jung added the fourth level known was collective unconscious. d. The conscious, which is governed by the id. Preconscious, which is accessible on demand. Personal conscious, which is forgotten memories. Jung added the fourth level known was collective unconscious. e. None of the above. 33. You have a horrible dream about being lost in a very obscure town. You seem to lose control easily in this dream and cannot keep things in line. What is this dream indicative of on terms of Jung s Dream Language theory? a. An identity crisis b. That you are not ready to leave and old way behind. c. The real self is becoming obscured d. Loss of identity and representation of anxiety. 34. Bob becomes hypnotized when he is asked to close his eyes and his body responds in accordance to what the hypnosis is directing upon Bob. What type of suggestibility is present here? a. Direct b. Hypnotic blindness c. Indirect d. Illusion movement 35. What does DSM stand for? a. The Disorder and Statistical Manual of Mental Diseases. b. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. c. The Disorder and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. d. The Dictionary and Statistical Manual of Mental Diseases.

9 36. Carl is taking part in substance abuse and has been using it on a regular basis. He always seems very anxious and agitated. He paces back and forth in his room and also has trouble sleeping at night. Its likely that Carl is taking: a. Cocaine, a depressant. b. Alcohol, a depressant. c. Heroin, an opiate. d. Nicotine, a stimulant. 37. What is true about psychoactive drug use? a. Can only have either a physical dependence or a psychological dependence. b. The physical dependence is when the body becomes accustomed to the drug and issues occur when trying to discontinue. c. The psychological dependence is when you continue the drug because it makes an emotional effect on those around you. d. None of the above. 38. What are ways in which we acquire language through the interactionist approach? a. Cognitive, social communication and emergency b. Cognitive, language comprehension and behaviour c. Cognitive, social communication and emergentist d. Cognitive, language comprehension and emergentist 39. The four characteristics of language are that it must be: a. Generative, symbolic, structured and semantic b. Resourceful, syntax, generative, meaningful c. Explicit, symbolic, structure and semantic d. Symbolic, direct, structured and semantic 40. Saba tells the entire class a really awesome pun (everyone laughs a lot!). In fact, her ability to develop this skill of play on words began when she was about 7 or 8 years old. At that age she developed what? a. Linguistic heuristic b. A stellar sense of humor c. Metalinguistic awareness d. Phoneme identification

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