A cognitive psychologist may study the way we memorize a telephone number by:
a. investigating how we process and store the number in memory
b. analyzing the rewards available for successful memorization
c. researching the extent to which good memory skills are common in a family
d. interviewing to determine what unconscious motives may be associated with certain telephone numbers that a person has memorized
A
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a. The end of the dendrite b. Cell body c. Neurotransmitter d. The end of the axon
According to which theory of hearing will an 800-hertz tone produce 800 nerve impulses per second through the auditory nerve?
a. tonal base b. place c. amplitude d. frequency
What information does Pearson’s r provide?
What will be an ideal response?
From the list that Jill made for a shopping trip to the grocery store, she could recall only the items in the beginning and in the end of a list. This is called:
A. a Type I error. B. a heuristic. C. the serial position effect. D. retrograde amnesia.