You originally needed 24 trials to learn a list of words and two weeks later took 18 trials to relearn the list. A psychologist analyzed the evidence for memory and reports it. Which term would you hear when she gives this report?
a) free recall
b) serial recall
c) recognition
d) savings score
ANS: d
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Which of the following mothers has the greatest chance of giving birth to a baby with birth defects due to contracting rubella during pregnancy?
a. A woman who has the illness within the first 20 weeks of pregnancy b. A woman who contracts the illness during the third trimester c. Rubella is equally dangerous at any point from conception to birth d. Rubella is only dangerous within one month after the fetus is born
In a survey of recent graduates, your college reports that the mean salaries of the former students are positively skewed. What are the consequences of choosing the mean rather than the median or the mode in this case?
a. The mean is likely to provide a number that is lower than the largest cluster of scores. b. The mean is likely to provide a reliable estimate of where the scores cluster. c. The mean is likely to provide a number that is higher than the largest cluster of scores. d. The mean provides the 50th percentile of the distribution, making it the best choice to depict this cluster of scores.
One-year-old Natasha learned to open her small, cube-shaped toy box to get a toy, and she later utilized the same strategy to obtain a toy from her older brother's larger, football-shaped toy box. This is an example of
A) displaced reference. B) solving problems by analogy. C) imitational learning. D) inferred imitation.
How did the work of Wundt differ from that of Galton, Binet, and James McKeen Cattell?
A. Wundt utilized humans and not animal research subjects. B. Wundt focused on how individuals were the same rather than different. C. Wundt focused on how individuals were different rather than the same. D. Wundt used standardized psychological tests.