The first reflexes appear during which of the following prenatal stages of development?
A) germinal
B) embryonic
C) fetal
D) placental
C) fetal
You might also like to view...
If a baby is born with a small head, heart defects, and retarded mental and motor development, the mother is MOST likely to have
a. had smallpox early in her pregnancy. b. been an alcoholic. c. continued to work during pregnancy. d. smoked during pregnancy.
The feature-analysis approach to object recognition argues that
a. recognition involves a match between the overall shape of an item and the gestalt features stored in memory. b. recognition involves detecting specific characteristics of the stimulus. c. the match between the stimulus and the template must be exactly correct. d. we need to explain how people are able to recognize the arrangement of objects in a specific scene.
Which of the following students has the best understanding about the inconsistent research results on encoding specificity?
a. Albena: "Encoding specificity works especially well in laboratory settings." b. Mary Lou: "Encoding specificity works especially well for events that happened long ago." c. George: "Encoding specificity is especially likely when the material has been well learned." d. Takeshi: "According to the research, physical context is more important than all other encoding cues; studies that have congruent physical context are very likely to demonstrate encoding specificity."
Information derived from such things as personal experiences is transferred into long-term memory through the process of ____ encoding
a. attentive c. effortful b. automatic d. episodic