Ebbinghaus found that memory for a list of nonsense syllables faded quickly within hours, but then would stabilize over the next month, a finding now referred to as the ______.
a. savings method
b. curve of forgetting
c. power law of forgetting
d. Jost’s Law
Ans: B
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A bias based on the anchoring heuristic results when
a. the recollection of past events in one's life causes depression. b. one does not see other potential uses for an object. c. judgments are unduly influenced by initial estimates. d. judgments are based on typical members of a category.
Lucy's friends are feeling relieved. After bouts of depression, during which she has stated that she wants to kill herself, Lucy has become suddenly more cheerful than she has been in a long time. Her friends know that Lucy's parents cannot afford to get her counseling so they are happy she has snapped out of the bad feelings she has had. Lucy has been telling her friends she loves them and giving them some of her treasured items. What could actually be happening with Lucy?
A. increased risk of suicide B. decreased risk of suicide C. start of a relationship with a love interest D. redefinition of her role in her family dynamic
Why is it somewhat misleading to suggest that interference is the theory that explains "forgetting"?
Studies of infants' statistical learning abilities have shown that:
A. infants calculate simple t-tests to determine where word boundaries are. B. infants can keep track of statistical properties of their input, but they require hours (if not days) of exposure to make useful inferences. C. infants can use the statistical properties of their input to help them find words and also higher level elements such as grammatical categories. D. infants cannot calculate statistics.