After college graduation, Chuck decided to use his given name of Charles at his new job. Now that he has been introducing himself to new clients as Charles for the last year, he finds it difficult even in informal situations to refer to himself as Chuck. His tendency to more easily introduce himself as Charles rather than Chuck is best explained by which explanation of forgetting?
a. proactive interference
b. retroactive interference
c. memory decay
d. suppression
B
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a. general mental ability and age differentiation. b. reliability and validity. c. norms and standardization. d. age differentiation and age scale.
Feminists who align with the anticensorship movement are concerned that restrictions on pornography will lead to: a. Censorship of feminist writings and writings on homosexuality issues
b. Government regulation of the private sexual behaviors individuals engage in. c. Higher levels of poverty as women employed in those industries will no longer have jobs. d. Increased child sexual abuse because people who previously used porn as their sexual outlet will turn to children.
Projective tests such as the Thematic Apperception Test and the original Rorschach inkblot test are often criticized with regard to their reliability. Explain why the reliability of these tests may not be as good as a personality measure such as the MMPI.
What will be an ideal response?
Natural selection has favored species that reproduce sexually because sexual reproduction
a. is pleasurable, which is reinforcing. b. leads to genetic diversity, which is adaptive. c. leads to a longer life span and more variability in behavior. d. produces organisms that have the capacity for thinking and language. e. is more efficient than asexual reproduction.