If you study something all in one long session, which of these is likely?
a. Your long-term retention will be better than if you had spread out your study.
b. You will minimize your need to review the material later
c. You will forget more than you thought you would.
d. Your retention of the material will actually improve over time.
c
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If you remember "MSTRDMCPNHGN" as "AMSTERDAM and COPENHAGEN, but without the vowels," you improve your memory by what?
a. Confabulation b. Chunking c. Procedural memory d. Hypermnesia
Young Matthew is playing with his mother. She has his favorite stuffed animal, and she suddenly hides it under his blanket. Instead of looking for it under the blanket, Matthew starts to cry a little, since he thinks his toy is gone. Matthew's tears suggest that he has not yet developed a. conservation
b. reversibility. c. transitory properties. d. object permanence.
Your older brother's college roommate is an artist. He was very much hoping that his 5-year-old daughter would grow up to be artistic as well. At this point, she can draw some shapes pretty well, like circles and triangles, but that is about it
He is a bit worried. What would you tell him? a. She is not likely to ever be very skilled in drawing. b. She probably will be a gifted athlete. c. She is developing in a very typical manner for fine motor skills. d. She is lagging far behind other children her age in drawing.
Research conducted with identical twins who were raised together versus apart shows that:
a. genes play a large role in determining body weight and shape. b. when the twins are reared apart, weight gain occurs in different body areas. c. twins raised together are more similar in body shape than those reared apart. d. the weight of twins reared apart is correlated more with their adoptive family members than it is with their twin.