When you see WEST on the screen for a split second, you read it, but when you see W for the same brief time, you are not sure what it was. Your result illustrates which of the following?

a. Word-superiority effect
b. Availability heuristic
c. Encoding specificity
d. Language acquisition device


a

Psychology

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____ refers to the process of deliberately seeking environments that fit one's heredity

a. Niche-picking b. Context-selection c. Base-rating d. Polygenic inheritance

Psychology

Victor received ECT for his severe depression. He is experiencing memory loss for the events before and after the treatment. What can be reasonably expected with regard to his loss of memory?

A. Those memories are lost forever. B. His memory will deteriorate with more treatments and the loss will be permanent. C. It is not known what will happen, since Victor's problem with memory loss is very rare. D. He will show gradual improvement and his memory will likely return to normal.

Psychology

This type of graph shows frequency data as "wedges" of a circle

a. line graph c. pie chart b. bar chart d. frequency histogram

Psychology

If Watson's ideas are correct, then when Albert learned to fear the rat (in famous experiment), he ______

a. simply responded to the environment b. was affected by unconscious mental images c. was responding to inherited biological fears d. was avoiding the self-actualizing tendency

Psychology