Prompt feedback regarding your performance on psychology practice tests is most likely to inhibit:
a. overconfidence.
b. the framing effect.
c. functional fixedness.
d. the representativeness heuristic.
e. the availability heuristic.
Answer: a. overconfidence.
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A patient with impaired episodic memory would most likely have the greatest difficulty in
a. recognizing famous people. b. remembering the meaning of some words. c. recalling where to find eating utensils in the kitchen. d. remembering graduating from college.
_____ refers to the purpose for or psychological cause of an action.
A) Emotion B) Motivation C) Expression D) Cognition
The receptor neurons for smell are located in the
a. olfactory nerve. c. organ of Corti. b. olfactory membrane. d. organ of pheromone.