When asked to recall the past two years and report all of his positive and negative experiences, Mrugesh is able to accurately recall a much higher number of the positive memories than the negative ones. This outcome is consistent with research on the topic of ____.?
a. ?motivated forgetting
b. ?chunking
c. ?the primacy effect
d. ?transfer-appropriate processing
ANSWER:
a
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A. normalizes B. standardizes C. randomizes D. redistributes
Mike's research has shown a positive correlation between the number of books in families' homes and the grade-point averages of the children in those families. Mike's results indicate
A. that the presence of many books in a home causes children to be more studious. B. nothing, because the study did not take library borrowing into account. C. parents who buy many books encourage their children to study. D. the children of families with a large number of books at home tend to do well in school.
Which of these forms of psychological research is best able to yield causal
inferences? (a) the case study (b) the survey (c) any form of correlational research (d) experimental research (e) third variable research
_______________ involves exaggerating the frequency of an event whereas ______________ involves exaggerating the importance of an event
a. Myth of causation; myth of helplessness b. Need for approval; tyranny of shoulds c. Overgeneralization; catastrophizing d. Catastrophizing; overgeneralization