1. Your friend asks, "Can you give me a ride tomorrow?" You know your friend isn't asking if you are capable of performing this action because of the practical aspects of communicating with others. These are referred to as _________.

syntax.

pragmatics.

morphologies.

grammar.

2. We naturally start to feel hungry when our favorite food is placed in front of us. In a conditioning experiment, the sound of a chime is paired with a someone presenting you your favorite food. After several pairings, you start to feel hungry when you hear the chime by itself. In this experiment, your favorite food is the _______________, and you feeling hungry when you hear only the chime is the _______________.

unconditioned stimulus; conditioned response

unconditioned stimulus; unconditioned stimulus

conditioned stimulus; unconditioned response

conditioned stimulus; conditioned response

3. Your friend Jana is telling you about an exam she recently completed. On the exam, Jana says there was a question that told them to state and discuss the five major causes of a European war. Jana says that she could remember four causes and swore she knew the fifth, but she couldn't remember it during the exam. Jana then complains that as soon as she left the building, she suddenly remembered the fifth cause, but it was too late. The most likely cause of this problem was _________.

storage failure

encoding failure

memory trace decay

retrieval failure

4. Mario is getting frustrated with putting together his new desk. Instead of following the directions, Mario decided to try to put his new desk together using the same method he tried for his old desk. This tendency to try to solve problems in the same way every time reflects...

a noncompensatory strategy.

a means-end analysis.

functional fixedness.

a mental set.

5. Imagine you have just finished a class and are exiting the lecture. During class, the professor showed a graph and walked through the results for several minutes. You paid close attention to this explanation, and you think that graph will be retained in memory for some period of time. What stage of memory does this rely on?

Storage

Encoding

Retrieval

Forgetting