The part of working memory thought to interact with long-term memory is called
a. central executive
b. episodic buffer
c. phonological loop
d. visuospatial sketchpad
Ans: b
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not do harm to a child's ability to pay attention. d. it is virtually impossible to make any blanket statements about the benefits or harms associated with watching television in childhood.
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a. True b. False
Vicarious consequences play a major role in
a. teaching. b. prompting. c. motivating. d. reducing anxiety.
In E. C. Tolman's experiment, some rats were trained to run through mazes for standard food goals, while other rats were allowed to explore the mazes for 10 days without food goals or other rewards. Later, when food rewards were placed in a box at the far end of the maze, the previously unrewarded rats reached the food box as quickly as the rewarded rats after only one or two trials. This
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