Which of the following students provides the best description for how John Anderson's model of semantic memory accounts for our long-term learning?
a. Xianming: "By practicing, we can strengthen the links between two concepts."
b. Joan: "Working memory has a capacity that is potentially unlimited; learning basically increases the capacity of working memory."
c. Tashica: "If many links are activated at the same time, each of these links is greatly strengthenedâ€"even more than if only one link is activated."
d. Dan: "Through learning, our exemplars become increasingly strengthened."
Ans: a
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Which of the following does not demonstrate the influence of gender stereotypes?
a. Parents see their newborn sons as stronger than their newborn daughters. b. Parents underestimate the crawling ability of their infant girls and overestimate that of their infant boys. c. When a baby boy cries in response to a toy, he is thought to be angry. When a baby girl exhibits the same response, she is thought to be afraid. d. Newborn boys tend to be taller and weigh more than newborn girls.
Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage of the mean?
a. It is unduly influenced by extreme scores. b. Its value many not actually exist in the data. c. It is least stable from sample to sample. d. Its interpretation in terms of variables requires some faith in the interval properties of the data.
The procedure that is carried out entirely in the patient's imagination and used to reduce the inappropriate sexual arousal that exists in fetishistic behavior is called a. classical conditioning. b. sexual retraining
c. sensate focus. d. covert sensitization.