Suppose that a friend asks you what movies you have seen within the past year. Your recall is especially accurate for the movies you saw during the last two weeks. This phenomenon is called
a. chunking.
b. the recency effect.
c. the primacy effect.
d. proactive interference
Ans: b
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a. behave the most aggressively at the end of the study. b. watch the non-violent program. c. watch the violent show. d. behave the least aggressively at the end of the study.
The final stage of friendship, according to the developmental model presented in your chapter, is a. ending
b. solidification. c. crystallization. d. tempering.
Rozin's research in which he presented apple juice that had been contaminated with a dead cockroach (although the roach was removed) to children and adults reveals that ____
a. disgust is an innate emotion with little learning required b. disgust is at least partially a learned emotion c. disgust is innate for females, but learned for males d. disgust is innate for males, but learned for females
Cocaine is considered to be an indirect dopamine agonist
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false