Cal is watching a cooking show and wants to try one of the dishes. The recipe is being read aloud by the host. Unfortunately, Cal doesn't write anything down, thinking he can remember it. "One cup flour, one teaspoon sugar ... oh, I just can't keep up. I've forgotten the first couple of ingredients." Cal's problem is best explained by:
A. maintenance
B. interference
C. chunking
D. encoding
Answer: B
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a. "8-10 hours a day.". b. "16-18 hours a day.". c. "12-14 hours a day.". d. "20-22 hours a day.".
Egocentrism is Piaget's terminology for describing the concept of centration, in which the child thinks about the world from his own personal perspective
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
A _______________ is a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental disorders and takes a more biological approach than other psychotherapists
a. psychiatrist b. psychoanalyst c. LCSW d. MFCC
Compared to earlier findings on social facilitation, what do recent findings show about what happens to people's performance in the presence of others?
a) Performance improves in people with high achievement motivation. b) Performance improves on easy tasks but suffers on difficult tasks. c) Performance decreases on both easy and difficult tasks when being observed by someone of the opposite sex. d) Performance on interesting tasks increases, but performance on boring tasks decreases.