What are organized bodies of information stored in memory that help people represent the way the world is organized and allow them to categorize and interpret new information?
a) long-term memory
b) encoded memory
c) short-term memory
d) schemas
d
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A small boy has recently delighted his parents because he learned to call his father "Daddy." However, it has now become an embarrassment to his mother when she takes him out with her because he keeps calling other men Daddy. This is an example of __________.
A. associative linkage B. stimulus generalization C. higher-order conditioning D. spontaneous recovery
Language is based on basic sound units called:
a) phonemes. b) morphemes. c) semantics. d) registers.
A researcher studying how a rat's diet affects its offspring is an
A. epigeneticist. B. genomicist. C. molecular geneticist. D. ecological geneticist.
Trina received a poor quarterly appraisal of her work performance, and by the time she gets home from work she is so upset that she wants to throw and break something. However, instead, Trina decides to go for a hard 5-mile run
When she gets back from the run, she feels better and her anger has evaporated. Trina's reduction in aggression can be explained by the ________. a) general aggression model b) frustration-aggression hypothesis c) catharsis hypothesis d) excitation transfer theory