Kerry's grandparents moved to a new neighborhood last year. Today, Kerry can easily remember their address but messes up their old one. This illustrates
a. trace decay.
b. interference.
c. retroactive inhibition.
d. proactive inhibition.
c
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Byron's car skidded across the rain-slicked road, into oncoming traffic. He was able to regain control and avoid an accident. As he sat in his car on the side of the road his blood pressure decreased and his heartbeat slowed. Byron's blood pressure and heart rate returned to normal levels due to activity within his:
a. somatic nervous system b. sympathetic nervous system c. parasympathetic nervous system d. cerebellum
Cancer patients experiencing nausea from chemotherapy often develop taste aversions to the foods they had eaten earlier. Based on the research of Garcia and colleagues, researchers developed a technique for minimizing this negative effect; it involved giving a patient unusual foods, such as coconut or root-beer-flavoured candy, at the end of their last meal before undergoing treatment. Such a
procedure attempts to establish the taste of the candy as a(n): A) unconditioned positive stimulus. B) conditioned stimulus triggering a pleasant gustatory reaction to chemotherapy. C) conditioned response to chemotherapy. D) conditioned stimulus triggering nausea.
When Ann went to her doctor, he gave her a hearing test. During the test, the doctor presented tones to Ann through earphones. The tones started at a low intensity and then became louder. The doctor asked Ann to raise her hand whenever she started to hear a sound. The doctor was testing Ann's
a. auditory convergence. b. absolute threshold. c. refractory threshold. d. difference threshold. e. Weber threshold.
At birth, Megan weighed 9.5 pounds. Research shows that she is at an increased risk of __________ in adulthood
A) diabetes B) lung cancer C) breast cancer D) stroke