Which statement offers the best explanation of why some middle-aged people have some long-term memory loss?
A. Middle-aged people have too much information stored; therefore, it is difficult to keep it all in long-term memory.
B. Middle-aged people have too much stress in their lives, which impedes their ability to use their long-term memory capacity.
C. Middle-aged people have less efficient retrieval skills for finding and retrieving information, even if the information was adequately stored in long-term memory.
D. Middle-aged people's learning genes begin to deteriorate, which leads to long-term memory loss.
Answer: C
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A. It is probably accurate, which explains why the human nervous system contains over one hundred billion neurons. B. Research has found that specificity encoding does occur for lower animals, such as dogs and cats, but has not found this phenomenon to exist in human beings. C. It is unlikely to be correct because there are too many stimuli in the world to have a separate neuron for each. D. Specificity coding is one of the areas that is only theoretical and not applied, and thus there is no way to know if it truly exists in human beings.
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A) classical conditioning theorists. B) humanistic theorists. C) operant conditioning theorists. D) social learning theorists.
A preoperational child fails to show conservation because:
A. of centration. B. of the lack of egocentrism. C. conservation requires the ability to focus on just one aspect of a situation at a specific time. D. a preoperational child focuses on more than one dimensions at a time.
Which retinal structure is indicated by the pointer line?
A) fovea B) retinal ganglion C) blind spot D) optic disk E) cornea