FSU PSYC320 2021 January Quiz 8 Latest

PSYC320 Theories of Learning

Quiz 8

Question 1After the events of Columbine, certain video games came under heavy criticism for their violent content, especially the use of guns. The perpetrators spent hours playing specific video games as "practice." If the criticism is true and video games played a role, which learning ability would explain what the shooters were doing by playing the video game?

  identical elements theory

  transfer specificity

  learning set formation

  motor program

 Question 2Research on talent and expertise suggests that:

  the total amount of practice is an important variable in determining whether a person will become an expert.

  practice alone determines who will become an expert.

  it is easy to determine how much practice an individual will need in order to become an expert.

  people need to be born with talent in order to become experts.

 Question 3The restricted applicability of some learned skills to specific situations is known as:

  implicit learning.

  a motor program.

  transfer specificity.

  skill decay.

 Question 4A participant watching a film on better running form creates memories that he later uses to improve his own running skills. This is known as:

  cognitive skill.

  power law of practice.

  knowledge of skills.

  observational learning.

 Question 5People with Parkinson's disease:

  have trouble with mirror-reading tasks.

  can be treated with deep brain stimulation.

  usually begin experiencing symptoms in their twenties.

  have abnormally high levels of dopamine.

 Question 6Brain-imaging research on people learning to use patterns on cards to predict weather outcomes has shown that activity _____ in the basal ganglia, and people _____ improve on the task.

  increases; do

  decreases; do

  decreases; do not

  increases; do not

 Question 7During the _____ stage of skill learning, learners begin using stereotyped actions when performing the skill and rely less on actively recalled memories of rules.

  autonomous

  cognitive

  expert

  associative

 Question 8Without any explicit training from adults, many children know how to turn the ignition key in order to start their parent's car. This is an example of:

  implicit learning.

  variable practice.

  observational learning.

  explicit learning.

 Question 9Thorndike's identical elements theory provides a good explanation for:

  motor programs.

  transfer specificity.

  skill decay.

  apraxia.

 Question 10The acquisition of the ability to learn a new task rapidly based on frequent experiences with a similar task is known as:

  motor learning program.

  learning set formation.

  transfer specificity.

  identical elements theory.

 Question 11Being able to throw a baseball without having to think about the motions one is making is an example of the _____ stage of skill acquisition.

  expert

  cognitive

  associative

  autonomous

 Question 12Implicit learning:

  occurs only in people with amnesia.

  is more likely to occur for cognitive skills than for perceptual-motor skills.

  is often studied using a serial reaction time task.

  is more likely to occur for perceptual-motor skills than for cognitive skills.

 Question 13In 2005, Harvard University president Larry Summers provoked controversy by suggesting that:

  women have a high aptitude in the area of engineering.

  aptitude doesn't play a role in engineering, regardless of whether one is a man or a woman.

  men and women have equal aptitude in the area of engineering.

  men have a high aptitude in the area of engineering.

 Question 14An experimental task that requires individuals to press keys in specific sequences on the basis of visual cues provided by a computer is known as a:

  serial reaction time task.

  motor program.

  perceptual-motor task.

  reflex task.

 Question 15Individuals with anterograde amnesia can:

  learn new facts but not new skills.

  not learn new facts or new skills.

  learn new skills but are unaware of having learned them.

  learn new skills if they are reminded each day of what they had practiced the previous day.

 Question 16As people learn a new perceptual-motor skill that requires sequential finger movements, the amount of cortex that is active _____ with practice.

  increases slowly at first and then more rapidly

  decreases steadily

  increases rapidly at first and then more slowly

  increases steadily

 Question 17It is difficult to study the forgetting of perceptual-motor skills because:

  without practice, the ability to perform a skill tends to deteriorate.

  once a skill is learned, it is never forgotten.

  it is difficult to distinguish forgetting of the skill from impairment in motor control.

  if a person cannot perform a skill, it usually means she has forgotten it.

 Question 18An electromechanical device that can help people recover lost abilities to learn and perform perceptual-motor skills is called:

  deep brain stimulation.

  transcranial prosthesis.

  motor prosthesis.

  sensory prosthesis.

 Question 19On mirror-tracing tasks, people with damage to the cerebellum _____ than unimpaired people.

  learn the task more quickly

  show more transfer of training

  learn the task more slowly

  show less transfer of training

 Question 20A simple puzzle game is often used for studying how one learns _____ skills.

  perceptual-motor

  open

  cognitive

  closed