Ira Is Asked to Remember the Order of a Previously

question 24

Multiple Choice

Ira is asked to remember the order of a previously presented list of words;the experimenter asks him to recall the words immediately after hearing them.Devon is asked to remember the same list,but his recall is delayed by 20 seconds after the list presentation;during that time,Devon is given no other task to form.We would expect

• A)little or no difference between Devon's performance and Ira's.
• B)that Devon would have poorer memory for the list's early words but better memory for words presented later in the list.
• C)that Devon would have better memory for the entire list.
• D)that Devon would have poor memory for words at the end of the list.

Understand the process and significance of second-order conditioning.

Identify and explain the roles of conditioned stimuli (CS) and unconditioned stimuli (US) in classical conditioning.

Describe the phenomenon of experimental extinction and its causes.

Recognize examples of conditioned responses (CR) and unconditioned responses (UR).

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