Research on infantile amnesia suggests that adults typically cannot remember events that happened during the first few years of life because
A) early memories are stored in an explicit memory system that is difficult to recall.
B) most adults have forgotten these early memories due to the passage of time.
C) long-term memory does not emerge until around age 7.
D) adults cannot translate early preverbal memories into language.
D
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Imagine that anthropologists found a culture that had over 80 different words for rice. If researchers also found that the people in this culture thought about and perceived rice in different and more elaborate ways than people who have only one word for rice, it would:
a. support the prototype theory of categorization b. support the linguistic relativity hypothesis c. provide evidence that the exemplar theory of categorization is incorrect d. provide evidence that the linguistic relativity hypothesis is incorrect
The best or most typical model of a concept is called a(n) ______
a. prototype c. image b. exclusive representation d. phoneme
After major heart surgery,
a. optimists were more likely than pessimists to require hospitalization. b. pessimists were more likely than optimists to require hospitalization. c. optimists and pessimists were equally likely to require hospitalization. d. pessimists were more likely to require hospitalization if the procedure was mild; optimists were more likely to require hospitalization if the procedure was severe.
A sample of n = 4 scores is obtained from a population with ? = 70 and ? = 8. If the sample mean corresponds to a z-score of 2.00, then what is the value of the sample mean?
A) ?M = 86 B) ?M = 78 C) ?M = 74 D) ?M = 72