In the leading questions/memory distortion work by Loftus, people were shown a video of a car crash and then asked how fast the cars were going when they hit/smashed/collided/bumped/contacted each other
The between-group difference in the immediate report of the speeds the cars were traveling (e.g., across the smashed and contacted groups) likely indicates __________.
a. suggestibility
b. false memory
c. memory impairment
d. all of the above
Answer: d
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Which of the following is NOT a legitimate criticism of the information-processing approach?
a. It has had limited impact on instructional strategies. b. The mind-computer analogy underestimates the richness of human cognition. c. It is a fragmented understanding of human cognition. d. The assumption that working memory is a single, limited capacity store is flawed.
If I performed a study in the 1980s, and you wanted to see if my findings are still current in 2008, you could simply ________ my study today
a. analyze b. qualify c. power d. quantify e. replicate
The clinician who was fascinated by the ability of the unconscious mind to influence the body was ________________.
A. Edward Titchner B. Sigmund Freud C. William James D. B. F. Skinner
Movement of the axon membrane potential from -70 mV to -90 mV would be termed a(n)
A) action potential. B) threshold potential. C) depolarization. D) hyperpolarization. E) excitatory local potential.