During a Trivial Pursuit Game, Seth Was Trying to Think

question 287

Multiple Choice

During a Trivial Pursuit game, Seth was trying to think of the name of John Lennon's wife. "Yanni? Yo-yo? no, that's not it.I'm sure I'll think of …. Wait, I remember! It was Yoko Ono!That was John Lennon's wife!" This example illustrates:

• A)the misinformation effect.
• B)the déjà vu experience.
• C)a TOT (tip-of-the-tongue) experience
• D)the experience of a flashbulb memory.

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Definitions:

Learned Helplessness

A condition marked by an individual's struggle with feeling incapable, stemming from experiencing trauma or constant unsuccessful attempts.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, through which associations are made between a behavior and the consequences for that behavior.

Extinction

In the study of psychology, this term describes the slow reduction and final elimination of a conditioned response due to the absence of pairing between the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli.

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to differentiate between a conditioned stimulus and other stimuli that have not been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.