The tendency for prior learning to inhibit recall later learning is called: ____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Recency effect in free recall decreases with increase in:____________?

   A. Length of the the list
   B. Exposure time
   C. Number of previously learned lists
   D. Delay prior to recall

2. “Rather than rote learning, we believe in learning by doing.” This statement is reflective of which school of psychology?

   A. Structuralism
   B. Functionalism
   C. Behaviorism
   D. Gestalt

3. The initial stage of learning a response is called: ____________?

   A. conditioning
   B. extinction
   C. contiguity
   D. acquisition

4. The tendency to fill in gaps in the perception of a figure is called:___________?

   A. sensory completion
   B. closure
   C. figure-ground
   D. continuation

5. Distributed practice refers to learning: ____________?

   A. All at once
   B. over several sessions
   C. from several different sources
   D. through several different senses

6. The tendency to view one’s own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways is know as: _____________?

   A. Behaviorism
   B. ethnocentrism
   C. humanism
   D. functionalism

7. The tendency to group together objects that are the same size, shape, color or form is know as: _____________?

   A. closure
   B. continuation
   C. similarity
   D. nearness.

8. The shape of the sigmoid curve of learning is indicated where:

   A. The number of wrong responses is greater in the beginning of training
   B. The number of correct responses is greater in the beginning of training
   C. The number of wrong responses is greater in the end of training
   D. The number of wrong responses is greater in the middle of training

9. In classical conditioning, learning is evident when a: ______________?

   A. stimulus automatically produces a response without a prior history of experience
   B. stimulus which did not initially produce a response now elicits that response
   C. spontaneously emitted response increases in frequency as a result of in consequences
   D. subjects repeats an action he or she has observed in another and is praised for it

10. State dependent learning is a term which refers to the fact that: _____________?

    A. bodily states can be a strong cue for later memory
    B. learning and memory can be increased with the use of drugs
    C. happy people have better memories
    D. adults lose any eidetic memory as they grow older