Jessica was upset because she was unable to remember her 4th birthday party, and everyone in her family was always talking about that day. A cognitive explanation for Jessica's memory loss might suggest that
a. at four, Jessica was probably not interested in remembering her past.
b. her ability to encode sensory input was limited due to her language skills.
c. a or b
d. none of these
C
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According to Reid, we could trust our notions about the physical world because:
a. of the acuteness of the senses. b. it made common sense to do so. c. Hume’s logic was faulty. d. such notions are innate.
If you forget to take out the trash for 2 weeks, it will probably stink. After 30 minutes of being around it, you don't notice the smell. This is an example of:
A) signal detection. B) accommodation. C) Weber's law. D) sensory adaptation.
An advantage of using the mode is that it
a. is sensitive to very high or very low scores in a distribution. b. gives the score actually obtained by the greatest number of people. c. is very reliable when there is a small group of scores. d. is the most valid inferential statistic that one can use.
The most recent edition of the APA ethics code was published in _____.
A. 1962 B. 1976 C. 1990 D. 2002