You see a phone number on television for a product you want to buy, but you can't find a pencil to write it down. As you are trying to memorize the number, you see another number appear in the next commercial for a second product you want to buy. Suddenly you realize that you have forgotten the first number! This outcome is due to ____.?
a. ?interference
b. ?decay
c. ?proactive inhibition
d. ?repression
ANSWER:
a
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a. How rapidly the animal forgets during a period without training b. Whether the animal sits up immediately after the bell, or after a delay c. Which happens first, sitting up or salivating d. Whether the bell always predicts food, or if only after the animal sits up
The morning sickness drug _____ was found to cause children to be born with missing limbs and deformed eyes and ears
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The dialogue in which each person confirms the other as being unique and important is what philosopher Martin Buber called the __________ dialogue
A) "Us-Them" B) "You-Us" C) "I-Me-Me-Mine" D) "I-Thou" E) "I-It"
The tendency to imagine outcomes in a situation other than what actually occurred is known as ________
A) magical thinking B) counterfactual thinking C) reminiscence thinking D) mitigation thinking E) counterintuitive thinking