Sarah, an eight-year-old, is playing with her dolls. She notices that they are of different heights. After playing, she arranges them from left to right on a rack in increasing order of height. Which of the following processes does this scenario illustrate?
A) Encoding
B) Mainstreaming
C) Seriation
D) Rehearsing
C
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The thinking people display about the thoughts, feelings, motives, and behaviors of themselves and others is
a. personal agency. b. social cognition. c. self-esteem. d. self-concept.
When studying disruptions to the biological clock in animals, what did Curt Richter find?
A. Blinding animals strongly disrupted their clock. B. Rendering animals deaf strongly disrupted their clock. C. Long periods of forced activity strongly disrupted the clock. D. The biological clock is insensitive to most forms of interference.
People's deliberate use of psychoactive substances to influence behavior dates from the
A) beginning of the 20th century, when recognition of the effects of alcohol led to the era of Prohibition. B) middle of the 20th century, when chemical substances could first be synthesized from petroleum. C) beginnings of humankind. D) ancient Greeks, who became skilled at making wine. E) late 20th century, when advances in biotechnology allowed the creation of drugs specifically designed to affect neurotransmitter systems.
Amnesia patients may suffer profound memory losses and their general
intelligence tends to__________. a. deteriorate to the level of borderline intellectual functioning b. remain within a normal range c. temporarily be deficient but return to normal in one to two years d. never recover well enough for the person to live independently