Our memory for how to do things is called __________.
a. procedural memory
b. explicit memory
c. mnemonic memory
d. semantic memory
a. procedural memory
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Minimizing the damage caused by a disease is to detecting a disease at an early stage as ______ prevention is to ______ prevention.
A. tertiary; secondary B. primary; secondary C. tertiary; primary D. secondary; tertiary
Brain maturation is one factor that influences an infant's sleep patterns
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Consider the study with extreme groups of third grade boys and girls that found a 50% difference in the number of fights between the group that watched almost no violent TV and the group that watched a lot of violent TV. About half of the subjects were located 10 years later. What were the results?
(a) there were no differences between the groups 10 years later (b) the boys who had watched a lot of violence in the third grade were, on the average, more aggressive even 10 years later than those who had not (c) the girls who had watched a lot of violence in the third grade were, on the average, more aggressive even 10 years later than those who had not (d) the girls who had watched a lot of violence in the third grade were, on the average, less aggressive even 10 years later than those who had not
The linguistic determinism hypothesis is challenged by the finding that
A) chimps can learn to communicate spontaneously by using sign language. B) people with no word for a certain color can still perceive that color accurately. C) the Eskimo language contains a number of words for snow, whereas English has only one. D) infants' babbling contains many phonemes that do not occur in their own language and that they therefore cannot have heard.