These questions are intended only to familiarize you with the format of the multiple choice

questions on the exam. They do NOT cover all of the material you are expected to know.
Studying these topics and nothing else will not sufficiently prepare you for the exam.

1) Your dog loves to go for a walk. He starts to wag his tail as soon as you get the leash from
the cupboard. This is an example of:

a) Negative reinforcement
b) Operant conditioning
c) Classical conditioning
d) Negative punishment

2) Under a ________, reinforcement is delivered after a specific number of responses have been
made.

A) Fixed ratio schedule

B) Variable interval schedule
C) Fixed interval schedule
D) Variable ratio schedule

3) Absent-mindedness is the result of:

a) The limits of working memory

b) Shallow encoding
c) Persistence
d) Cryptomnesia

4) Which of the following is an example of semantic memory? I remember...

a) ...I had a sandwich for lunch

b) ...Prague is a capital of Czech Republic
c) ...I saw my friend in the library
d) ...how to ride a bike

5) The probability of two events co-occurring simultaneously is always ________ the

probability of either event occurring separately.

a) Less than
b) More than
c) The same as
d) There is not enough information to answer this question
6) A nursery school teacher showed her class of 3-year-olds an M&M box and opened it to
reveal pencils instead of candy. Then she closed the box and asked the children what another
personwho had not seen insidewould think is inside. The children would likely say:

a) M&Ms
b) Playdoh
c) Pencils
d) They don't know

7) The idea of 'cultural ratcheting' describes:

a) The cumulative nature of human cultural and technological advances

b) Intergroup competition
c) Conformity to authority
d) Any set of norms shared in one group and not another

8) As children acquire the grammatical rules of their language, they tend to overgeneralize those
rules. This results in predictable speech errors around the age of 4 or 5, such as:

a) You runned.
b) You ran.
c) Run you.
d) Ran you.

9) You are most likely to have a tip-of-the-tongue experience when trying to remember the
name of someone named Jane, if youve just greeted someone named:
(a) Sarah
(b) Joan
(c) Haley
(d) Ann

(10) Which of the following experiments showed evidence of conformity to groups (i.e.,
going along with a crowd)?

(a) The Stanford Prison Experiment

(b) The Milgram experiment (with the shocks)
(c) The Asch experiment (with the perception of lines)
(d) The Cheater detection experiment