Amy is trying to remember her social security number, while registering for school. What technique would help Amy in this process?
a. Stare at the numbers on her social security card to create an icon in her short-term memory.
b. Repeat the list of numbers to herself one at a time.
c. Rehearse the set of numbers keeping them in the 3 chunks format.
d. This is not possible because a social security number is made up of 9 numbers, which is larger than short-term memory capacity.
C
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Which of the following statements does NOT apply to the results of research on differences between how experts and novices solve problems?
a. Experts possess more knowledge about their fields than novices. b. Experts often organize problems differently than novices, based on principles. c. Experts often spend more time analyzing problems than novices. d. Being an expert in one field can transfer to better problem solving in another field.
You conduct a study on taste perception. Which of the following results would present a challenge to a structuralism approach to psychology?
A. A food tastes the same no matter what context it is eaten in. B. A food tastes sweeter after eating salty food, and saltier after eating sweet food. C. Taste perception is shown to have an evolutionary role. D. Taste perception is shown to result from the combination of many individual taste sensations.
As people age, the frequency of sexual intercourse usually
A) gradually decreases. B) drops dramatically. C) stays the same. D) gradually increases.
Classically conditioned behaviors are said to be ______ by the stimulus, while operant behaviors are said to be ______ by the organism.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).