Rotter believes that:
a. it is usually not essential to study the individual's distant past experiences in great detail in order to predict behavior adequately
b. the traumatic experiences of the person in early childhood are the best predictors of current behavior
c. personality is relatively stable from birth
d. behavior is not goal-oriented
a
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The failure to accurately describe something from memory with which one is very familiar, such as a penny, is attributed to ________.
A. encoding failure B. proactive interference C. elaboration failure D. retroactive interference
Cattel was interested in:
a. modifying behavior from abnormal to normal. b. treating emotionally disturbed patients. c. changing the personality of unhappy people. d. studying the personality of normal people.
Elementary school students in the United States are often taught to use the very familiar word "HOMES" as a cue for remembering the names of the Great Lakes (each letter in "HOMES" provides a first-letter cue for one of the lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior). This memory procedure usually works better than repeating the names over and over. The use of this familiar word provides an example of
A. a self-reference effect. B. repetition priming. C. implicit memory. D. elaborative rehearsal.
Which developmental theme of the text was most dominant in the chapter on family context?
a. Nature-nurture b. Quantitative-qualitative change c. Holistic nature of development d. Active child