Unit 2 Review Guide COGSCI 1B Exam Questions and Answers 2024

Unit 2 Review Guide COGSCI 1B Exam Questions and Answers 2024 Higher-Level Consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER-Involves controlled processing, in which individuals actively focus their efforts on attaining a goal; the most alert state of consciousness. Example: Doing a math or science problem; preparing for a debate; taking an at-bat in a baseball game Lower-Level Consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER-Includes automatic processing that requires little attention, as well as daydreaming Altered States of Consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER-Can be produced by drugs; trauma; fatigue; possibly hypnosis and sensory deprivation, and/or mental disorders. Subconscious Awareness - CORRECT ANSWER-Can occur when people are awake as well as when they are sleeping and dreaming No Awareness - CORRECT ANSWER-Freud's belief that some unconscious thoughts are too laden with anxiety and other negative emotions for consciousness to admit them Read the following scenario and then label the stimuli and responses. (UCS, CS, NS, UCR, CR) Benny decides to teach his fish to swim to the top of the fish bowl. Currently, his fish swim to the top of the bowl only after he feeds them. Benny uses a flashlight to shine light in the bowl before sprinkling in the fish food. After a week, when Benny shines a light in the bowl, the fish swim to the top of the tank whether or not he has sprinkled in food. - CORRECT ANSWER-UCS- fish food CS- Light from flashlight NS- Light from flashlight UCR- fish swims to top of tank CR- fish swims to top of tank Jenny is a professor at a large university. She works hard every day and consistently receives positive reviews for her teaching skills from both students and co-workers. Every once in a while, she is recognized for her hard work with a pay raise. Jenny recognized that this raise happens about once every 12-16 months on average. According to the principles of operant conditioning, the schedule of reinforcement for Jenny's pay raises is best described as a __ ___ schedule. - CORRECT ANSWERvariable interval We learned from the previous question that Jenny is a hard worker and receives a lot of praise and occasionally a pay raise. When she gets her pay raise, what kind of consequence is this? - CORRECT ANSWER-positive reinforcement The consequence is a positive reward because the university is adding something Jenny likes (money) to encourage something the university likes (hard working professors). When Jenny gets her next raise, she decides to treat