Which of the following represents the capacity of long-term memory?
essentially unlimited
7 plus or minus 2 items
limited neurologically to 4 billion engrams
the more information you have in there, the less effectively you can add new information to it
essentially unlimited
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When people overestimate the influence of internal, personal factors and underestimate the role of external, situational factors in interpreting another person's behavior, they:
a. are showing a self-serving bias b. initiate a self-fulfilling prophecy c. are making the fundamental attribution error d. experience cognitive dissonance
When traditional practitioners of the ancient Eastern religion of Zen Buddhism want to achieve greater spiritual insight, they turn to a technique that has been used for centuries to alter their state of consciousness. This technique is called
A. hypnosis. B. mesmerism. C. mysticism. D. meditation.
A researcher conducts an experiment in which half of the number of participants read a story designed to reduce prejudice (story group), whereas the other half read material unrelated to prejudice (control group). After reading the material, half of the participants describe a minority group while alone, and the other half describes a minority group in the presence of their peers. The dependent variable is the number of positive statements made about the minority group. The mean number of positive statements in the four conditions was as follows: 
Although the final conclusions would be based on statistical significance tests, these results indicate a(n)
A. lack of effect of the control versus story variable. B. absence of interaction between the two variables. C. increase in prejudice among participants in the story group. D. main effect of the alone versus peer group variable.
Rejecting-neglecting parents are:
A) high in their attempts to control their children. B) low in support and responsiveness. C) high in their demands for mature behavior. D) communicative and warm.