The psychology textbook Rochelle is reading was written by three authors: Bootzin, Bower, and Loftus. When asked by a friend to name the authors of her psychology text, Rochelle can only remember Loftus. Rochelle's recall illustrates the ____ effect.
A. semantic
B. primacy
C. encoding
D. recency
Answer: D
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a. levels-of-processing theory b. mood congruency c. spaced practice d. encoding specificity principle
Memories of general knowledge, including facts, rules, concepts and propositions, are called ________
a. procedural memories. b. semantic memories. c. implicit memories. d. episodic memories.
Sexual ________ refers to a person whose attraction to others changes over time. An example would be someone who is attracted to those of the opposite sex at one point in their life and, later, is attracted to those of their own sex
a) maleability b) plasticity c) flexibility d) fluidity
An investigation into the relationship between age and happiness in which people
were categorized into four age ranges found that there was (a) a negative relationship; younger people were happier (b) a positive relationship; older people were happier (c) a U shaped relationship; younger people and older people were happy; middle aged people were unhappy because they saw that they were getting older (d) an inverse U shaped relationship; younger people and older people were unhappy; middle aged people were happiest because they were in their peak earning years (e) no consistent relationship between age and happiness