At first amateur naturalists painfully identify the birds, butterflies, mammals, or plants they find by mechanically searching through published field guides. In time, those who persist begin to identify more and more species from memory and others based on the general properties they have learned through experience. These amateurs who base their identifications on the general properties of the
species observed are using which type of problem-solving?
a. trial and error
b. rote
c. understanding
d. the use of algorithms
C
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a. reduced gray matter. b. reduced white matter. c. enlarged vertricles. d. increased myelinization.
When the multiple groups of individuals who differ in age are tested in the same study, the researcher is using a cross-sectional research design
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Who was the first African American woman to be awarded a doctorate in psychology?
a. ?Karen Horney b. ?Christine Ladd-Franklin c. ?Francis Sumner d. ?Inez Prosser
One study attempting to detect dissociative identity disorder, had patients view words and pictures and then recall the stimuli when they were either experiencing dissociation or not. Results suggested
A) some types of learning do not transfer between alter identities. B) dissociated individuals are unable to engage in memory tasks. C) dissociation episodes tend to wipe the memory of anything learned prior to the dissociation episode. D) people recalled the same amount of stimuli regardless of their dissociation state at learning or recall.