Short term memory is also known as working memory

A. True
B. False


A

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About ______% of people in Western countries are right-handed.

A. 25 B. 50 C. 80 D. 90

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According to research conducted by Peter Wolff on arousal states in newborns, as newborns adjust to their new environment following birth, their arousal states become:

a. more dramatic, with larger swings of energy between high and low states b. less positive and more negative c. more regular and predictable d. more irregular and dictated by specific environmental occurrences

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Approximately how many people who divorce will remarry again, usually within 2 to 5 years?

a) one-half b) two-thirds c) three-quarters d) one-quarter

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The representativeness heuristic causes us to erroneously judge words with “L” as their first letter to be more common than words with “L” as their third letter. 2. Lynette has been playing roulette for an hour. The past eight spins have come up black. If Lynette is a victim of the gambler’s fallacy, then she will tend to bet on black next time. 3. Hindsight bias causes us to believe that we “knew it all along” in predicting a surprising event. 4. Expected utility is a descriptive model of human decision making. 5. The normative model for integrating different dimensions of a complex decision is called MAUT.

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