The effect of stress and emotion on memory seems to depend on the attentional mode of control that is present when an emotional event, such as a crime, occurs
If, when witnessing the crime, the person is extremely worried and anxious and their heart rate and breathing are very high:
a) they will be in arousal mode and remember only the peripheral details.
b) they will be in arousal mode and remember only the central details.
c) they will be in activation mode and not remember much at all.
d) they will be in activation mode and remember both the central and peripheral details.
Answer: c
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a. systematic b. objective c. variable d. quantifiable
Researchers tend to use quasi-experimental research designs when they are able to manipulate an independent variable but NOT able to ____
a. use random sampling b. use random assignment c. perform statistical tests on their results d. use more than 20 research participants
Fanny, who lives in the United States, has AIDS. When her son Alexander is born, he also tests positive for HIV. Fanny wonders what this means for Alexander's life expectancy. Fanny's competent doctor is most likely to tell her that as the result of the development of more effective drug treatments, Alexander will
a. die within a few weeks. b. live one to two years. c. have a 50 to 75 percent chance of living to age five years. d. be unlikely to ever die of the complications of AIDS.
Among the first to struggle with how the mind works were the:
A) Greek philosophers. B) dualists led by Descartes. C) 18th-century phrenologists. D) 18th-century German physiologists.