Knowing that a long list of words will be more difficult to remember than a short list is called
A) a cognitive task.
B) a strategy.
C) knowledge about people.
D) attention.
A) a cognitive task. Metacognition includes cognitive tasks (such as knowing that a long list of words will be more difficult to remember than a short list), knowledge about cognitive strategies (such as knowing that simply repeating a telephone number will help you remember it for a short time), and knowledge about people (such as knowing that there are limits to what a person can remember).
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Rewarding a patient when he/she performs desired behaviors and withholding rewards when he/she performs undesired behaviors in a psychiatric hospital is an example of
a. contingency management. b. survival of the fittest. c. dependency among patients. d. supply and demand to therapy activities.
Jung used the method of _____ to analyze his patients’ dreams
a. free association c. manifest analysis b. amplification d. word association
Studies have found
a. heterosexual couples are more sexually satisfied than gay or lesbian couples. b. gay couples are more sexually satisfied than lesbian or heterosexual couples. c. lesbian couples are more sexually satisfied than gay or heterosexual couples. d. comparable levels of sexual satisfaction in gay, lesbian, and heterosexual couples.
Classical psychophysicists placed a great deal of emphasis on determining the absolute threshold for a particular type of sensory stimulation. This proved to be difficult because
a. the point at which an observer detects a stimulus varies from trial to trial. b. adequate technical equipment for measuring intensity was not available until recently. c. subjects must be carefully trained to make these judgments accurately. d. researchers used samples too small to give reliable results.