Memories that are demonstrated by improved performance in the absence of any conscious awareness of the memories are called
A) implicit memories.
B) explicit memories.
C) semantic memories.
D) episodic memories.
E) short-term memories.
Answer: A
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a. temporal summation b. spatial summation c. synaptic summation d. saltatory summation
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a. Early in life, maturation determines motor development. b. There is a predictable order to developmental norms for motor development. c. Infants need environmental stimulation for proper motor development. d. Motor development follows cephalocaudal and proximodistal principles.
Joan is obsessed with stories about cowboys
In these stories, the bad guy always wears a black hat. Because of this, her schema for bad, dangerous men includes black clothing and, especially, black hats. One day, her car breaks down on the highway and a man dressed entirely in black and wearing a black hat stops and helps her. Which of the following is she most likely to think? a) "Wow, I'd better change my ideas about men in black." b) "How strange, he must be the exception to the rule." c) "Maybe it is men in white who are dangerous." d) "All those cowboy stories had it wrong!"
The view of American society as a "melting pot" in which all cultures are amalgamated is called
a. pluralistic education. c. the cultural assimilation model. b. multicultural education. d. immersion education.