You have been asked to play a "psychic" at the Halloween carnival at your son's school. A customer enters, and you begin by making general statements about this person. You would then expand on anything the person responds to in a positive way as shown by his or her facial expressions, body language, or tone of voice. The technique you are using is known as
a. cold reading.
b. mediumship.
c. clairvoyance interpretation.
d. dishabituation.
A
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a. his poverty-stricken upbringing on the Western frontier b. his father losing his property due to faulty property titles c. the death of his mother when he was nine years old d. insomnia
Concepts can guide our thinking and be continually tested for accuracy against new, incoming information, such as by judging category membership. In this way, concept formation can be viewed as a type of ____
a. ?theory building b. ?schema c. ?feature detection d. ?prototype
A university professor who writes 100 multiple-choice questions immediately before going to bed is MOST likely to dream about:
A) fragmented lists of a, b, c, and d. B) ideas for additional questions. C) the question she last wrote. D) the chapter theme about which she is writing.
Which of the following systems maintains information in memory by repeating words and sounds?
a. Episodic buffer b. Central executive c. Phonological loop d. Visuospatial sketchpad