Rita conducts a study in which she videotapes college students interacting with each other before and after performing a series of cognitive tasks that were presented as "Intelligence tests that can affect your college tuition charges." She then has a carefully trained team observe and record the participants' actions, noting visible signs of anxiety in particular. What type of measure best describes the one used by Rita?
A. Statistical
B. Behavioral
C. Physiological
D. Self-report
Answer: B
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A. automatic B. effortful C. semantic D. procedural
When all three types of memory work together to read a passage of your text, ____.?
a. ?the sensory registers hold information to match with information in long-term memory. b. ?early parts of the sentence are held in short-term memory to compare to words in long-term memory. c. ?light from the page is converted to neural activity stored in short-term memory. d. ?memory is not necessary because all the input is present.
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A. conservation. B. complementarity. C. concrete operations. D. object permanence.
Emergent literacy refers to
A) the automatic retrieval of word meanings in long-term memory during reading and writing tasks. B) children's active efforts to construct literacy knowledge through informal experiences. C) a method of reading instruction that parallels children's natural language learning. D) an approach to beginning reading instruction that emphasizes phonics.