The forgetting of past failures, upsetting childhood events, the names of people you dislike, or appointments you do not want to keep is most likely caused by
a. repression.
b. encoding failure.
c. retroactive interference.
d. proactive interference.
A
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What type of disordered conditioning did psychologist Diana Woodruff-Pak notice in patients six years before other tests on these patients showed signs of dementia?
a. salivation b. nose twitch c. knee jerk d. eye blink
The term that means that a construct might be related to some constructs but not to others is:
a. range of convenience b. ordinal relationship c. preemptive construct d. permeability
Daniel, age 5, saw a clock on the shelf and took it apart to see what made it tick. Which theory best explains this behavior?
a. cognitive b. drive-reduction c. instinct d. behavioral
Early in vocabulary growth, children adopt a mutual exclusivity bias, which is the assumption that ________.
A. an object in space cannot be in two places at the same time B. words always have two meanings, but never more than two C. words refer to entirely separate, nonoverlapping categories D. the structure of sentences can be determined by relying on the meanings of words