Last week Lisa took an abnormal psychology test and did not miss a question. However, when a guest speaker came to class a week later to talk about schizophrenia, she had trouble remembering some of the relevant class material
She remembered even less about the topic when she saw a news report on schizophrenia a month later. What memory phenomenon explains what Lisa is experiencing?
a. mirage effect
b. serial position curve
c. free recall curve
d. curve of forgetting
d
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A. is hard to measure some of the key concepts B. is too closely based on Piaget's stages C. relies too heavily on information-processing concepts D. relies too much on social interaction and culture
One of the best ways to capture and make sense of the complexity of individual experience is through quantitative research methods
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Damage to which of the following areas results in problems producing speech?
a. Broca's area b. Wernicke's area c. the orbitofrontal cortex d. the cingulate cortex
According to the article Zipping Up the Genes about twins reared apart, a trait within a group for which
the variance would be high is (a) amount of delinquency among teenagers (b) speed of cars in a bumper to bumper traffic jam (c) number of fingers and toes on newborn babies (d) number of cans in a six-pack of soda