Louise Brown grew up with the knowledge that she was the first person to be conceived using in vitro fertilization. This atypical experience in Elizabeth's life is referred to as a ___________ event
a. normative sociocultural-graded c. normative age-graded
b. non-normative life d. normative history-graded
b
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The current version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale consists of items that assess:
a. verbal and performance skills b. general intelligence and specific abilities c. analytical and logical thinking skills d. practical thinking and problem-solving abilities
Using the partial report method, Sperling found the capacity of iconic memory could hold
A) about four or five letters. B) about nine or ten letters. C) all the letters present. D) about one to two letters.
You visit your mother and she wants to know what you have learned in school recently. Having just read the section on infant hearing in your textbook, what would you tell your mother you have learned?
a. Infants are not able to hear at all. b. Infants can hear, but not as well as adults. c. Infants' hearing is about the same as that of adults. d. Infants have better hearing than adults.
According to research by Rose and her colleagues, it was shown that, from age to age, individual differences in capacity for visual recognition memory:
A) are stable. B) increase dramatically. C) increase gradually. D) decrease dramatically.