You are studying for a midterm exam in your French class. After several hours of review, you take a break by reading through your Spanish vocabulary items. The next day, on the French exam, you are dismayed to discover that the appropriate French words keep eluding you, whereas the Spanish words “pop into your head.” You are experiencing the effects of ______.
a. proactive interference
b. retroactive interference
c. the tip-of-the-tongue effect
d. encoding specificity
b. retroactive interference
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a. are probably this way because of genetics. b. are probably this way because of good parenting. c. are probably this way because of a combination of temperament and parenting. d. are immune to the effects of negative caregiving.
Michelle is conducting an experiment in which she is evaluating the effects of reward magnitude and reward immediacy on classroom behavior. She has two levels of reward (Low and High) and two levels of immediacy (Daily and Weekly) with four groups: Low-Daily, Low-Weekly, High-Daily, and High-Weekly. Michelle's design is best described as ____
a. fully crossed b. filled out c. completed d. totaled
When given its price, wine drinkers often judge _____ expensive wine to be superior in flavour, illustrating the role of _____ processing in taste perception.
A) more; top-down B) more; bottom-up C) less; top-down D) less; bottom-up
Branches of the optic nerve go directly to what areas of the brain?
A. lateral geniculate and cerebral cortex B. superior colliculus and cerebral cortex C. lateral geniculate and superior colliculus D. prefrontal cortex and occipital lobe