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Elida High School
Mr. Kellermeyer
Blizzard Bag #3
Economics and Personal Finance:
Go to www.federalreserve.gov, go to the About The Fed tab, then go to the Educational Tools
tab, then look for the tab that says In Plain English: Making Sense of the Federal Reserve. Read
through this presentation. Then write a half page summary about what the Federal Reserve is
about.
A.P. Psychology:
Please complete the following crossword puzzles. They should be a good review for two areas in
Psychology that we have covered in the second semester. These two areas would be learning and
memory.
Learning
Across - Learning
1 This occurs when training an animal . . . . their innate behaviors get in the way of learning the
new behavior.
3 ___________ discovered classical conditioning while looking at the digestive process of dogs.
4 The ______________ naturally evokes a response.
6 Money is considered a _____________ reinforcer
7 According to the _______________ the unconditioned stimulus and the conditioned stimulus
must occur close together.
9 If you run into a warm house to escape the unpleasant cold outdoors, then you have
experienced _______________ reinforcement with regard to the behavior of running in the
house.
10 Ben’s little sister Beth watched while he yelled at their parent’s because he didn’t want to
mow the lawn. Ben’s parents gave in and Ben didn’t have to mow the lawn until the next week.
The next time Beth was asked to pick up her room she yelled at her parents because she still
wanted to play outside. This is an example of ____________.
12 In our example from class the music from Jaws was the _________________
14 Food is a __________ reinforcer.
15 ____________ reinforcement means that the individual receives some pleasant stimuli for
performing a response in an effort to increase that response.
16 The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned
stimulus to evoke similar responses.
18 This is the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human leans when unable to
avoid repeated aversive events.
20 The __________________ is the natural response to a stimuli.
21 You’d like to teach your new parrot a complex behavior. So, you’ve decided to reward him as
you train him – giving him a small piece of banana for each step he learns until he finally has
learned to do the whole complex behavior. This is called______
22 After eating a bowl of hot tomato soup, you barf all over the dining room table. Now, you
dislike tomato soup . . . this is an example of ________________.
23 In this kind of learning, behavior is either reinforced or punished.
Down - Learning
2 With _______________ reinforcement schedules, the response is reinforced at different times,
say every 5 seconds, regardless of the actual behavior.
3 Maretta is carrying a heavy load of books to her car. She tries to reach into her pocket to find
her keys, loses control of the books, and they fall, breaking her left toe. When the books fell,
how was Maretta conditioned?
5 __________________ learned to fear little white furry things.
8 This is a type of learning where things get associated with each other
11 In classical conditioning the __________________ is the result of the conditioned stimulus.
13 In a _______ schedule of reinforcement, the reinforcement is given every 5th correct
response, for example.
17 ______________ is the process of a behavior disappearing because it is no longer rewarded.
19 ________________ simply refers to learning an association between a behavior and it’s
reinforcement
Memory
Across - Memory
1 Barrett is trying to remember a word list. To do this he is taking each word and making up a
story for it and elaborating on each word. Barrett is processing the information at a
_______________ level.
3 As a child, Mike experienced a vivid dream in which he was chased and attacked by a
ferocious dog. Many years later he mistakenly recalled that this had actually happened to him.
Mike's false recollection best illustrates ________________________
5 __________ term memory is generally resistant to forgetting, has a large capacity and is quite
organized.
7 You know that Sally Field won the Oscar for Norma Rae, this type of knowledge is called
____________________.
11 Donna was in San Francisco in 1989 during a really big earthquake. She can remember
exactly where she was, who she was with and what she was wearing, when in happened, Donna
probably has a _____________ memory of this event.
14 This type of interference is the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old
information.
15 Researchers believe that _____________ term memory can contain 7 plus or minus 2 pieces
of information.
16 This type of interference is the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new
information.
17 Remember Barrett from item #1? Well, when he made up the stories, he made sure each story
had to do with something that happened in his life and as a result he remembered the material
better. This illustrates the ______________________.
Down - Memory
2 The fact that you can tie your shoes without thinking about it much, demonstrates that you
have ________ knowledge for doing it.
4 Jennifer is trying to learn the material for this exam. She has come up with a vivid story and
has used the peg-word system to remember the material. Jennifer has used _______________ to
remember the material.
6 ____________ memory is memory for abstract rules or concepts that are independent of where
we learned them.
8 Remember that list of words? Well, now Ann is trying to remember it. She comes up with a
word that rhymes with each of the words on the list. Ann has probably processed the information
at a(n) __________ level.
9 This type of memory have a large capacity, but is very brief (it decays rapidly)
10 __________________ believed that after we learn novel information, our retention of it drops
sharply and then levels out over time.
12 Jacque is trying to memorize a list of words. To do so he is only focusing on the surface
features of each word, the number of syllables, whether or not the word is capitalized, etc. Jacque
is processing the information at a _____________________ level.
13 You remember that you had chocolate cake for your last birthday. This type of declarative
memory is called _____________.
Military History II:
Research a military weapon that interests you and write a half page summary about that weapon
and how it has been used in the U.S. military.