When studying for her psychology exam, Amy would read each word from the list of key terms at the end of the chapter, read the definition of the term, and then think of an example that illustrated each term. Amy was using the process of ____ to hopefully enhance her memory of the terms
a. elaboration
b. expanded attention
c. retrieval
d. imagery
A
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What is a major advantage of deep brain stimulation over psychosurgery?
a. ?It does not require surgery. b. ?It is reversible. c. ?It is more cost effective. d. ?It is nearly always effective.
When a person has incompatible ideas that motivate him or her to change beliefs or behavior, _____ exists.
a. cognitive dissonance b. back-propagation c. a neural network d. connectionism
Attention is focused by
a. intense or shocking stimuli. b. subliminal stimuli. c. figure-ground relationships. d. sequential stimuli.
Don is delighted when he successfully conditions his roommate, Lloyd, to cringe at the sound of the squeaky drawer by pairing the squeak with a ping-pong ball to his roommate’s head. He decides continue his experiment with classical conditioning and creates another squeaky noise by dragging his chair legs across the floor. At first Lloyd cringes at the new squeak, but with continued “trials” in which the drawer squeak is paired with a ping-pong ball to the head but the chair leg squeak is not, Lloyd stops cringing to the chair leg squeak, illustrating ____.
a. ?habituation b. ?dishabituation c. ?discrimination d. ?generalization