Psy 263 Exam 4: Illinois State
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Learning - Answer a process that expresses itself as an adaptive change in behavior that
results from experience
Memory - Answer the encoding, consolidation and retrieval of information about past
experiences. It is needed for learning to take place
"Flashbulb Memory" - Answer A type of memory that recalls important stressful events (e.g.
9/11 terrorist attacks, Vegas shooting, etc)
-Could be more frequently rehearsed, or more strongly encoded
One-Trial Learning - Answer A type of learning where certain important information is learned
very quickly (e.g. eating a new food that makes you sick, imprinting in baby animals, etc.)
Sensation - Answer A stimulus that originally provoked little response, begins to invoke greater
responses after repeated exposure (e.g. a loud noise makes an animal more sensitive to slight
noise)
Habituation - Answer getting used to your habitat (e.g. city squirrels vs. campus squirrels)
classical conditioning - Answer the learning of association between specific stimuli
-Ivan Pavlov
Acquisition - Answer Timing during conditioning
-Controlled Stimuli occurs before UnControlled Stimuli (CS is predictive; contingency between
CS and UCS)
-CS and UCS must occur closely together in time
-UCS before CS is unlikely to produce classical conditioning
Generalization - Answer the more SIMILAR a stimulus is to the CS, the MORE likely a
, Extinction - Answer CS presented alone repeatedly —> CR stops occurring (CS loses
predictiveness)
Short-term memory - Answer immediate memory for events, which may or may not be
consolidated into long-term memory
Long-term memory - Answer Relatively stable memory
Declarative (explicit) memory - Answer A type of long-term memory that can be verbally
expressed (e.g. person's past)
-Semantic Memory = facts
-Episodic memory = experiences
Procedural (implicit) memory - Answer A type of long-term memory where previous
experiences aid in performance of a task
-Skill memory = lets us perform actions
-Priming = exposure to a stimulus influences a response to later stimulus
Retrograde Amnesia - Answer loss of ability to RECALL memories that occurred before the
brain trauma
Anterograde Amnesia - Answer loss of ability to FORM new memories following brain trauma
Place Cell - Answer type of pyramidal neuron within the hippocampus that becomes active
when a person enters a particular place in its environment (a place field)
Operant conditioning - Answer A second type of associative learning
-Learning of associations between responses and the stimuli that follows them
Reinforcers - Answer changes in the environment (stimuli) that follow a behavior and
increases the frequency of the behavior
University Prep Test Questions Fully
Solved 2025-2026 Updated.
Learning - Answer a process that expresses itself as an adaptive change in behavior that
results from experience
Memory - Answer the encoding, consolidation and retrieval of information about past
experiences. It is needed for learning to take place
"Flashbulb Memory" - Answer A type of memory that recalls important stressful events (e.g.
9/11 terrorist attacks, Vegas shooting, etc)
-Could be more frequently rehearsed, or more strongly encoded
One-Trial Learning - Answer A type of learning where certain important information is learned
very quickly (e.g. eating a new food that makes you sick, imprinting in baby animals, etc.)
Sensation - Answer A stimulus that originally provoked little response, begins to invoke greater
responses after repeated exposure (e.g. a loud noise makes an animal more sensitive to slight
noise)
Habituation - Answer getting used to your habitat (e.g. city squirrels vs. campus squirrels)
classical conditioning - Answer the learning of association between specific stimuli
-Ivan Pavlov
Acquisition - Answer Timing during conditioning
-Controlled Stimuli occurs before UnControlled Stimuli (CS is predictive; contingency between
CS and UCS)
-CS and UCS must occur closely together in time
-UCS before CS is unlikely to produce classical conditioning
Generalization - Answer the more SIMILAR a stimulus is to the CS, the MORE likely a
, Extinction - Answer CS presented alone repeatedly —> CR stops occurring (CS loses
predictiveness)
Short-term memory - Answer immediate memory for events, which may or may not be
consolidated into long-term memory
Long-term memory - Answer Relatively stable memory
Declarative (explicit) memory - Answer A type of long-term memory that can be verbally
expressed (e.g. person's past)
-Semantic Memory = facts
-Episodic memory = experiences
Procedural (implicit) memory - Answer A type of long-term memory where previous
experiences aid in performance of a task
-Skill memory = lets us perform actions
-Priming = exposure to a stimulus influences a response to later stimulus
Retrograde Amnesia - Answer loss of ability to RECALL memories that occurred before the
brain trauma
Anterograde Amnesia - Answer loss of ability to FORM new memories following brain trauma
Place Cell - Answer type of pyramidal neuron within the hippocampus that becomes active
when a person enters a particular place in its environment (a place field)
Operant conditioning - Answer A second type of associative learning
-Learning of associations between responses and the stimuli that follows them
Reinforcers - Answer changes in the environment (stimuli) that follow a behavior and
increases the frequency of the behavior
