What enables some people to have more capacity of working memory than other people do? Greater proactive interference
a. Greater peripheral vision
b. Focusing attention on just the relevant information
c. Greater total volume of the cerebral cortex
d. Greater proactive interference
b
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a. acceptance-responsiveness b. responsiveness-demandingness c. demandingness-control d. control-acceptance
Roberto is getting extremely angry. His body is experiencing the fight-flight reaction, caused by
A. the release of norepinephrine by his sympathetic system. B. the release of acetylcholine by his parasympathetic system. C. his conscious experience of the activity of his autonomic nervous system. D. the struggle between his sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.
Thorndike conducted research on ______________
A) operant conditioning B) classical conditioning C) shaping D) higher-order conditioning
The development of the brain, height and weight gains, motor skills, and the hormonal changes of puberty all reflect the role of ________ processes in development.
A. cognitive B. assimilative C. socioemotional D. biological