According to the semantic network model, it would take less time to answer "true" to which sentence?
a) "a salmon is an animal"
b) "a salmon is a fish"
c) "a canary is an animal"
d) "a dog is similar to a cat"
ANS: B, Salmon and fish are conceptually closer and, thus, comparing them would be faster than comparing something like salmon and animals (which are conceptually further apart).
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a. a movement toward integrating various approaches. b. a strong leaning toward cognitive approaches. c. a movement toward strong loyalty to individual schools of thought. d. reliance upon biomedical approaches.
A biologist, medicine man, and organic farmer would probably use which of Gardner's kinds of intelligence the MOST?
a. bodily-kinesthetic skills b. interpersonal skills c. naturalist skills d. visual and spatial thinking
The inability to distinguish an actual memory of an event from information you learned about the event elsewhere is called ________
a. consolidation b. source misattribution c. priming d. repression
One problem often noted about the experimental method is that
a. the behavior of the child in the laboratory may not reflect real-world behavior. b. it is difficult to assign participants to conditions randomly. c. cause-and-effect relationships cannot be determined. d. the independent variable often cannot be manipulated.