The main explanation for the ______________ effect is that the items at the beginning of a list are quickly rehearsed and transferred to long-term memory storage.
A. primacy
B. recency
C. halo
D. intermediate
A. primacy
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The correlation coefficient ranges from ________ to ________.
A. ?10; +10 B. 0; 1 C. +1.0; ?1.0 D. 1; 10
In United States v. Scheffer (1998), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of
A. expert testimony regarding criminal profiling. B. a confession elicited under minor duress. C. a confession elicited under moderate, but not major duress. D. a military rule of evidence which declares that polygraph results and opinions shall not be admitted into evidence.
Although mental shortcuts often help speed up brain processing; they also lead to misjudgments about the person or situation
a. True b. False
When parents __________, infants and toddlers are likely to be distractible, play immaturely, and do poorly on mental tests
A) bombard children with directions B) are warm and responsive C) initiate make-believe play D) work long hours