Betty fondly remembers her university days. When she returns to the campus for homecoming, however, she gets lost trying to find East Hall. Betty is probably experiencing the _____ of memory.
A) transience
B) blocking
C) suggestibility
D) bias
A) transience
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Set point theory about weight suggests that __________.
A. dieting can establish a new set point that stabilizes the near-starvation seen in people with anorexia B. people with anorexia are biologically programmed to be underweight C. the hunger that occurs by being well below one's set point can trigger binges D. sociocultural factors play very little role in the development of unrealistic body image goals
Narcotics work by:
A) increasing the activity of the central nervous system. B) producing a hallucinogenic effect. C) mimicking endogenous endorphins. D) all of the above
In assessing a person's sleep patterns, you include a measure of how long it takes before the person falls asleep after he or she goes to bed. This would be regarded as a(n) _____ measure of his or her sleep behavior
A) ?speed B) ?intensity C) ?topography D) ?latency
Banks and Barber (1971) presented subjects with a matrix of letters where each row was of a different color and then cued with color to indicate which row the subjects should report. They found:
A. That subjects rarely reported the row that was in the complementary color, suggesting that iconic memory is not like an afterimage. B. That subjects commonly reported the row that was in the complementary color, suggesting that iconic memory is like an afterimage. C. That color was not as effective a cue as the tones that were used in the original Sperling studies. D. That subjects tended to report both the required row and the row that was in the complmentary color, suggesting that iconic memory has some of the properties of an afterimage.