Todd runs into Sarah, his former girlfriend. Oh no! He can't remember her name and calls her Robin, the name of his current girlfriend. What type of interference did Todd just experience?
A. primary interference
B. secondary interference
C. retroactive interference
D. proactive interference
Answer: C
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Which claim of the two-factor theory of emotion has been disputed following subsequent research?
A) People experience similar emotions depending on the inferences they draw about the causes of their arousal. B) All emotional experiences are essentially caused by the same physiological process in the body. C) Interpretation of physiological arousal is involved in the emotional experience. D) Different people may not experience the same emotion, even if the physiological arousal is the same.
Bits of information stored in our memory are called ____
a. ?encoders b. ?memory traces c. ?bins d. ?bytes
Carey proposed that preschool children generalize what they know
a. about animals to people. c. about people to other people. b. about people to animals. d. about people to objects.
Which of the following statements is NOT true for neurotransmitters?
a. A neurotransmitter conveys a message to a neighboring neuron by traveling along the axon to the terminal fibers. b. Neurotransmitters are stored in synaptic vesicles. c. Neurotransmitters find their way to neuron receptor sites and subsequently trigger firing. d. When the neural impulse reaches the axon terminals, the vesicles release varying amounts of neurotransmitters.