Your neighbor tells you that his physician has prescribed L-dopa. Based on this information you conclude that your neighbor is suffering from
a) Tay-Sachs disease.
b) multiple sclerosis.
c) Alzheimer's disease.
d) Parkinson's disease.
ANS: d
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b. The "bang bang bang" of the tennis shoes that are tumbling in his clothes dryer. c. The announcers on a football game on television, which has the volume increased to adequate levels. d. The deep, booming voice of his boss, who is leading a meeting at work.
Advertisers would love to hear you humming their jingle in the shower because you have fallen prey to an attention-getting device called
a. brightness. b. motion. c. contrast. d. repetition.
Roy G. Biv is taught by science teacher to help students to remember the colors of the spectrum in order. Thus, Roy G. Biv is an example of
a. a mnemonic system. b. the serial position effect. c. rote learning. d. progressive-part learning.
In his impressive studies of memory, Sir Frederic Bartlett found that participants who were asked to remember stories were
a. amazingly accurate in their recollections of details. b. likely to include distortions in their reproductions. c. uninfluenced by their prior knowledge and experiences. d. consistent in maintaining the cultural themes of the original stories.