The elderly use _____ more often for processing information than do younger adults.
A. others' expertise
B. analysis
C. prior knowledge
D. new knowledge
C. prior knowledge
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Research evidence suggests that a. sleep is not necessary or helpful for memory formation
b. REM sleep, but not NREM sleep, appears to be essential for memory formation. c. NREM sleep, but not REM sleep, appears to be essential for memory formation. d. Both REM and NREM appear to play important roles in memory formation.
A behavioral psychologist tries to train a bird to climb a tree to get a reward of a piece of fruit. At first, the bird learns how to climb the tree with its legs and beak
After a while, it starts flapping its wings and hopping around before it starts to climb. Eventually, the bird flies up to the piece of fruit, even though that prevents it from getting the fruit. According to the Brelands' analysis of biological constraints, the bird is demonstrating __________. a) response generalization b) instinctive drift c) the Law of Effect d) stimulus discrimination
A small enclosure used by psychologists to study learning in which an animal can make a specific response that is recorded while the consequences are systematically controlled is known as a
a. Watson maze.
b. Skinner box.
c. classical conditioning chamber.
d. cumulative recorder.
Cattell used a statistical technique called factor analysis to reduce a large number of visible traits into 16 __________ traits, or factors
a. surface b. source c. common d. cardinal