Talbot looked up the phone number for a local restaurant and silently repeated it to himself as he dialed to make reservations. In this example, it appears that Talbot relied on:
a. chunking to increase the amount of information held in short-term memory
b. elaboration to link the phone number to information in long-term memory
c. repression to temporarily block other information out of short-term memory
d. rehearsal to temporarily store the restaurant's phone number in short-term memory
D
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a. ?experimenter bias b. ?the independent variable c. ?the dependent variable d. ?a confound
Classical conditioning:
a. is primarily concerned with reflexes. b. is primarily concerned with involuntary responses. c. is passive. d. all of the above
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a. fine motor abilities b. gross motor abilities c. eye-hand coordination d. psycho-motor skills