When a person experiences psychogenic amnesia, only one portion of memory is usually affected. Which?
A) procedural memory (how to do things)
B) semantic memory (pertaining to language and concepts)
C) perceptual memory (the representation of things in images)
D) episodic memory (the events we have experienced)
D
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A report in a research journal describes the symptoms of a mental disorder along with information on its etiology, including a heritability of 50 percent. How should this finding be interpreted?
a. Genetic factors and the environment contribute about equally to this disorder. b. Half of the people who suffer from the disorder have a genetically caused disorder. c. Half of the children of carriers of this disorder will actually develop the disorder. d. Geneticists have identified half of the genes thought to be responsible for this disorder.
When an observer is biased in favor of making internal attributions in explaining others' behavior, the observer is making
a. a stereotypical error. b. the self-serving error. c. the self-effacing error. d. the fundamental attribution error.
Describe the 12 major specialty areas of psychology
What will be an ideal response?
Means-ends analysis is a good problem-solving heuristic to use when:
a. there are numerous options at the start of a problem, but there will be few options at the end b. both the starting point and the ending point for the problem are poorly defined c. the problem can be broken down into a series of subproblems or subgoals d. all the other heuristics have failed to produce workable solutions