The process we use to notice important stimuli and ignore irrelevant ones is ______

a. encoding
b. attention
c. masking
d. chunking


b

Psychology

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A. 50 percent B. 75 percent C. 100 percent D. 35 percent

Psychology

Sampling distributions help us test hypotheses about means by

a. telling us exactly what the population mean is. b. telling us how variable the population is. c. telling us what kinds of means to expect if the null hypothesis is true. d. telling us what kinds of means to expect if the null hypothesis is false.

Psychology

Amusia refers to impaired detection of frequency changes

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Psychology

________ are characteristics shared by individuals growing up in a given sociohistorical context that can influence developmental outcomes

a. Cohort effects c. Agemate reliability b. Age-history confounds d. Socio-linked attributes

Psychology