One study of the characters in coloring books found that female characters comprised just 41% of all coloring book characters. This illustrates:
a. Gender categorization
b. Gender bias
c. Paternalistic stereotypes
d. Envious stereotypes
b. Gender bias
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In Chapter 5 of your textbook, the discussion of encoding specificity and level of processing emphasized that
a. both encoding specificity and level of processing activate the visual cortex during processing, and this activation directly improves recall. b. recall is more accurate if the instructions during encoding match the instructions during remembering; this match may actually be more important than deep processing. c. the most important factor in determining recall is whether people processed the material using deep processing or shallow processing. d. encoding specificity is the most important factor in laboratory research on memory, whereas level of processing is the most important factor for everyday memory tasks.
The misinformation effect occurs when a person's memory for an event is modified by misleading information presented
a. before the event. b. during the event. c. after the event. d. all of the above
Why did the first asylums aggravate the conditions of the mentally ill?
a. The conditions were overcrowded and there was no treatment. b. The doctors were cruel. c. The patients refused treatment. d. The patients were released too soon.
Based on their research, some scientists believe that ________
a. adolescents who commit violent crimes should be tried as adults because their cognitive abilities and moral reasoning abilities are like those of an adult. b. full neurological and cognitive maturity often does not occur until about age 25, and many teenagers who commit crimes should be considered "less guilty by reason of adolescence." c. the human brain is fully developed around 10 years of age, so the risky, dumb, or criminal things adolescents do should be blamed entirely on hormonal changes. d. adolescents should be considered as adults in the eyes of the law as soon as they have completed puberty, because physically they are adults at that point.