An experimental psychologist wants to study the effects of depth of processing controlling for the effects of other study strategies that the participants might use spontaneously if they know they are going to be tested on their memory. To do this, the experimenter tells the participants that they are going to be participating in a reaction time test to see how quickly they can make different
kinds of judgments about each of a series of words that will be presented to them, and they are not told that they will be tested for memory of the words. These instructions to the subjects are called
a. a pilot test.
b. an orienting task.
c. intentional learning instructions.
d. priming.
B
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a. behavioral inhibition system b. behavioral activation system c. behavioral attenuation system d. behavioral attraction system
Doug believes that a person's intelligence is about half inherited and half dependent on how the person grows up. Doug's statement best reflects a concept that researchers would call:
a. codominance b. a genetic predisposition c. heritability d. a heterozygous trait
If a reading educator is in favor of teaching reading by presenting it as a natural process, similar to acquisition of oral language, where the child is encouraged to guess at words and learns to read through exposure to actual uses of language,
this teacher is a proponent of the __________ approach. a) whole-language b) sound-symbol c) code-based d) phonetic fluency
Psychological difficulties that take on a physical form but for which there is no medical cause are called
A. cognitive disorders. B. somatic symptom disorders. C. chromosomal disorders. D. genetic disorders.