Ebbinghaus investigated the time course of forgetting. The best description of the typical pattern of forgetting that Ebbinghaus found would be:
a. a gradual early loss followed by a rapid decline
b. a slow, steady increase in memory
c. a constant, steady decline in memory
d. a rapid early loss followed by a more gradual decline
D
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How well do people typically remember experiences of kidnapping, torture, and so forth? a. They repress the memories and nothing can help them recall the events
b. Unless the events were from early childhood, people remembered them consciously. c. Nearly all repress the memories, but therapy can help them recall the events accurately. d. People grossly distort the memories to make them seem harmless.
A project is launched to study how children's strategies at video games change as they gain experience with each particular game. In Vygotsky's view, this is a(n)
a. phylogenetic approach. b. microgenetic approach. c. ontogenetic approach. d. sociohistorical approach.
Clarence Maloney is a cultural anthropologist. Having lived with individuals from the Republic of Maldives in the Indian Ocean, he has chronicled their daily lives and provided detailed descriptions of this cultural group to the scientific community
Currently, climatologists and anthropologists are working together to illustrate how rising sea levels have changed the daily behaviors of these people and are comparing it to what Maloney had described in the past. Which of the following best describes the type of research that Clarence Maloney conducted? a. an ethnography b. a quasi-experiment c. a correlation d. a survey
What is one of the reasons that toddlers who have been sleeping through the night start waking up again when they are between 18 and 24 months old?
a. They have more difficulties with digestion. b. They begin having difficulties with insomnia. c. They have a resurgence of teething. d. They have a huge growth spurt that tends to be painful.