Chapter 5: Learning
Sample questions
1. Now that you know how to learn more effectively, you would choose ______ semester system although you know that the total class meeting times under each system are all equal.
a regular fall or spring semester
b. summer I
c. summer II
d. mini-summer session
2. Which statement is correct?
a. To complete learning a subject, massed learning takes a shorter period of time to complete it.
b. To complete learning a subject, distributed learning takes a longer period of time to complete it.
c. Memory created from massed learning does not last very long.
d. all of the above.
3. Which of the following is implicit learning?
a. Mirror image star tracing.
b. classical conditioning.
c. procedural learning.
d. all of the above.
4. Which brain area is necessary in explicit memory?
a. amygdale b. motor cortex c. pre-frontal lobe d. Broca’s area
5. To which task will a normal control subject and an amnesic patient respond differently?
a. word stem completion b. serial RT task
c. repetition priming task d. recognizing a list of learned words
6. Change blindness derives from
a. LTM representation of familiar scenes does not keep details.
b. One not having memory of the pre-change scenes (although it is encoded).
c. bias in LTM.
d. The object in the old scene not being encoded in the first place.
7. What interval between repeated practices produces the best learning effect?
a. the shorter the better
b. the longer the better
c. a two-day interval is the best
d. the maximal length at which subjects can still remember the materials
8. Repeatedly presenting CS alone before forming its association with the UCS impairs its capacity to condition the CS. This is called
a. extinction
b. backward conditioning
c. latent inhibition
d. mere exposure effect
9. Which part of the brain is associated with the emotional memory of a conditioned stimulus?
a. hippocampus b. frontal lope c. medulla d. amygdale
10. Which statement(s) about learning a second language is (are) correct?
a. how effective the immersion method is depends on the age of the learners
b. learning from examples without teaching the rules is the most effective way of teaching a second language for an adult
c. learning the rules without applying the rules to example sentences is the most effective method
d. learning both the rules and examples is the most effective method
e. both a and d are correct
11. In the serial RT task, how do you know that the subjects were learning as the practice continued? Because
a. they could state the correct sequence verbally
b. their response time was decreasing as trials continued
c. their response time was increasing as trials continued
d. their accuracy was increasing as trails continued
12. Suppose the sequential stimulus numbers you need to respond to is just 4 numbers: 3-2-4-1 instead of 20 numbers. After you have practiced responding to this pattern for 12 times, your response becomes much faster. What do you think the type of learning you acquired in this task is most likely to be (can you tell me what the sequence is)?
a. implicit b. explicit c. nondeclarative d. unconscious
13. How did Masters make his subjects learn putting implicitly?
a. he told them not to think about the rules they were taught according to the manual
b. he told them that in the final test session, their performance would be evaluated and the results would determine the rewards they get
c. in the final test session, they were required to hold in their memory a list of materials
d. in the first several learning sessions, they were required to hold in their memory a list of materials
14. Retroactive amnesia
a. refers to absence of memory for events that occurred after an accident that renders a person unconscious.
b. can be caused by disrupting the consolidation process in memory formation.
c. refers to absence of memory for events that occurred right before an accident that renders a person unconscious.
d. both b and c.
15. Which describes the formation of a long term memory?
a. Long term potentiation.
b. Neurons that fire together repeatedly wire together.
c. consolidation.
d. All of the above.
