Delores repeatedly showed Curtis, her two-month-old, a picture of his grandfather. She noticed that Curtis seemed to become less interested in looking at the picture each time she showed it to him. Then she showed Curtis a picture of his grandmother, and he looked at it as long as he had first looked at his grandfather's picture. Curtis's loss of interest in his grandfather's picture demonstrates
a. habituation of attention. c. an operant response.
b. a conditioned response. d. recovery from habituation.
A
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a. 9 b. 11 c. 13 d. 15
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a. psychodynamic theory b. Gestalt psychology c. structuralism d. functionalism
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a. he is assimilating rather than accommodating b. he has made the A-not-B error c. he has a limited understanding of object permanence d. he lacks intermodal perception
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A. that it was difficult to create false memory B. creating a false memory required multiple reminders of the incident C. that creating the false memory only worked on younger children D. that it was easy to create a false memory