Lauren has learned what a fish looks like from a book. Her mother buys her a goldfish and a fishbowl. She then learns that fish swim in water. Lauren tries to incorporate this new event into her scheme of fish. In this context, Lauren is using
a. ?accommodation
b. ?assimilation
c. ?differentiation
d. ?augmentation
Ans: b. ?assimilation
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Learning that involves changes in the magnitude of responses to a specific stimulus is referred to as ____ learning. This type of learning does not involve the formation of connections between stimuli
a. ?nonassociative b. ?associative c. ?observational d. ?operant
Chapter 13 examined an experiment by Leichtman and Ceci on preschool children's eyewitness testimony. According to this research,
a. children's expectations about a stranger's behavior did not affect their recall. b. children's memory may not be perfect, but they can distinguish between what really happened and a false statement of what had happened. c. children in the control condition were not very accurate in recalling events. d. under certain circumstances, young children are fairly likely to report events inaccurately.
Which of the following pairs of variables are probably positively correlated?
a. weight and IQ of a person b. amount of time spent rehearsing material and amount learned c. the amount of traffic in a city and the city's air quality d. price of gasoline and number of miles driven per week
According to Loftus, the ________________ holds that after exposure to incorrect information, a person may misremember the original event.
a. misinformation effect paradigm b. false memory syndrome c. suggestibility d. transience