Question

Question 41

Prolonged exposure to secondhand smoke during childhood is a risk factor for lung cancer.

Select one:

True

False

Question 42

_____ are strong, slow brain waves usually emitted during stage 4 sleep.

Select one:

a. Alpha waves

b. Beta waves

c. Theta waves

d. Delta waves

Question 43

Nightmares, like most pleasant dreams, are products of _____.

Select one:

a. beta waves

b. non-rapid eye movement sleep

c. alpha waves

d. rapid eye movement sleep

Question 44

__________is the process by which stimuli lose their ability to evoke learned responses because the events that had followed the stimuli no longer occur.

Select one:

a. Generalization

b. Extinction

c. Discrimination

d. Regularization

Question 45

Walda's father is a gardener. She has been watching her father work for many years. She now has her own garden. Though she has never been taught the art of gardening, she is very good at it. In this scenario, Walda acquired gardening skills by the process of _____.

Select one:

a. systemic desensitization

b. cognitive mapping

c. observational learning

d. free association

Question 46

__________is Robert Rescorla's viewpoint that suggests that learning occurs only when a conditioned stimulus (CS) provides information about an unconditioned stimulus (US).

Select one:

a. Consistency paradox

b. Contingency theory

c. Contact hypothesis

d. Conflict theory

Question 47

The human ability to store information is limited.

Select one:

True

False

Question 48

In memory theory, the term__________means to cause information to be lost from short-term memory by adding new information.

Select one:

a. retrieve

b. displace

c. repress

d. chunk

Question 49

The hippocampus is an area of the brain where memories are stored.

Select one:

True

False

Question 50

Which of the following statements is true about a schema?

Select one:

a. It is a way of ejecting anxiety-evoking ideas from conscious awareness.

b. It is a way of mentally representing the world, which can influence perceptions.

c. It is a way of retrieving accurate information from long-term memory.

d. It is a way of displacing information in short-term memory by adding new information.

Answer 1

Answer:

41. The correct answer is TRUE.

It is true that prolonged exposure to secondhand smoke during childhood is a risk factor for lung cancer.

42. The correct answer is D. Delta waves

Delta waves are generated in stage 4 of sleep which is very slow and strong brain waves.

43. The correct answer is D. rapid eye movement sleep

REM sleep is the stage of sleep in which dreams, nightmares take place.

44. The correct answer is B. Extinction

Extinction is the process by which stimuli lose their ability to evoke learned responses because the events that had followed the stimuli no longer occur.

45. The correct answer is C. observational learning

She observed her father and learned the behavior for which she was never trained. This is an example of observational learning.

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