When researchers studied the memories of Chinese and of American students, the results showed that
a. the Chinese students performed better on visuo-spatial tasks than American students.
b. English students had an advantage on some numerical tasks because number words in English are shorter than those in Chinese.
c. Chinese students had less ability to deal with emotional words than Americans did.
d. Americans did not remember their own behaviors as reliably as Chinese students did.
D
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Approximately how long does a specific sensory memory last?
A. No more than a few seconds B. Close to a minute C. With rehearsal, several minutes D. With encoding, nearly forever
A procedure in which a clinician provides a formal evaluation of an individual's cognitive, personality, and psychosocial functioning is referred to as a
a. standardization. b. Clock Drawing Test. c. Barnum effect. d. psychological assessment.
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a) People you encountered often over the course of several year b) People who did unusual things that attracted attention c) People who were generally popular and well liked d) People you didn't much like at the time