PSY 2012 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% PASS 2026/2027
Instinct - ANS an inborn pattern of behavior elicited by environmental stimuli also known as a
fixed action pattern.
learning - ANS a relatively permanent change in behavior or the capacity for behavior due to
experience
classical conditioning - ANS a type of learning in which associations are formed between two
stimuli that occur sequentially in time
mazwald
operent conditioning - ANS a type of learning in which association are formed between
behaviors and their outcomes
skinner
observational learning - ANS learning that occurs when one organism watches the actions of
another organism also known as social leaning or modeling
extinction - ANS the reduction of a learned response.
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, spontaneous recovery - ANS during extinction training, the response reappearance of
conditioned responses after periods of rest (reappearance of CR following periods of rest
between extinction training sessions)
imitation - ANS copying behavior that is unlikely to occur naturally and spontaniously
memory - ANS the ability to retain knowledge
endcoding - ANS the transformation of information from one form to another
storage - ANS the retention of information
retrieval - ANS the recovery of stored information
sensory memory - ANS the first stage of the atkinson-shiffrin model that holds large amounts
of incoming data for brief amounts of time
short-term memory - ANS the second stage of the atkinson-shiffrin model that holds a small
amount of information for a limited time
long-term memory - ANS the final stage of the atkinson-shffrin model that is the location of
permanent memories
declarative memory - ANS a consciously retrieved memory that is easy to verbalize, including
semantic, episodes, and autobiographical information also known as an explicit memory
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ANSWERS 100% PASS 2026/2027
Instinct - ANS an inborn pattern of behavior elicited by environmental stimuli also known as a
fixed action pattern.
learning - ANS a relatively permanent change in behavior or the capacity for behavior due to
experience
classical conditioning - ANS a type of learning in which associations are formed between two
stimuli that occur sequentially in time
mazwald
operent conditioning - ANS a type of learning in which association are formed between
behaviors and their outcomes
skinner
observational learning - ANS learning that occurs when one organism watches the actions of
another organism also known as social leaning or modeling
extinction - ANS the reduction of a learned response.
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, spontaneous recovery - ANS during extinction training, the response reappearance of
conditioned responses after periods of rest (reappearance of CR following periods of rest
between extinction training sessions)
imitation - ANS copying behavior that is unlikely to occur naturally and spontaniously
memory - ANS the ability to retain knowledge
endcoding - ANS the transformation of information from one form to another
storage - ANS the retention of information
retrieval - ANS the recovery of stored information
sensory memory - ANS the first stage of the atkinson-shiffrin model that holds large amounts
of incoming data for brief amounts of time
short-term memory - ANS the second stage of the atkinson-shiffrin model that holds a small
amount of information for a limited time
long-term memory - ANS the final stage of the atkinson-shffrin model that is the location of
permanent memories
declarative memory - ANS a consciously retrieved memory that is easy to verbalize, including
semantic, episodes, and autobiographical information also known as an explicit memory
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