In a study that focused on taxi drivers in London, England, who must learn the names and locations of tens of thousands of streets in order to earn their licenses, the experienced cabbies exhibited superior memory for street information with the parts of their brains responsible for processing this learning being
a. enlarged.
b. lateralized.
c. more myelinated.
d. all of these.
A
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His approach to studying is best thought of as an example of: a. classical conditioning b. behavior modification c. habituation d. normative age-graded influences
Which of the following are components of the microsystem from Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory?
A. parents, siblings, peers and friends, and teachers B. schools, religious institutions, and the media C. cultural beliefs and values and economic and governmental systems D. time and historical change
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A) there is no objective measure to judge ourselves by B) the other that we are comparing ourselves to belongs to a different group C) available objective measures may result in decreased self-esteem D) available subjective measures may result in increased self-esteem E) the other that we are comparing ourselves to is of a higher status
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a. defining problems broadly b. allowing time for incubation c. worrying about the correctness of solutions d. exposing oneself to a wide variety of information