Dr. Newman asks people to recall the name of their kindergarten teacher. Surprisingly, the majority of people correctly do this and comment, "Gee whiz, I haven't thought about that old bat [or old coot] in years!"
Their ability to do so is a severe problem for which theory of forgetting?
a) interference theory
b) decay
c) encoding failure
d) retroactive interference
ANS: B, Their ability to do so is a severe problem for the decay theory of forgetting, because people are able to remember even when they haven't used that particular memory trace for a very long time. If decay was a constant process, that memory and all those from that time should be gone. However, we do have clear memories from long ago.
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a. They are usually more intelligent. b. They are usually more physically developed. c. They tend to be more sociable. d. They are not more popular? this is a myth.
According to Piaget, an individual may have a highly developed level of functioning for one cognitive skill but a much lower level for another cognitive skill. He refers to this phenomenon as
A. object permanence B. conservation C. horizontal decalage D. accommodation
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Fill in the blank with correct word
A correlation of 0.00 indicates:
A. a weak, positive correlation. B. no relationship between two variables. C. a perfect correlation. D. a weak, negative correlation.