Suppose a physician were to give you an aspirin, but tell you that it was a new drug,
Antiangst, that would make you less anxious. You take it and notice a marked decrease
in your anxiety. That would be an example of a/an
(a) failure to constrain beliefs (b) experimental confusion
(c) psychic drug
(d) placebo effect (e) false genetic effect
D
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a. short-term memory and long-term memory are distinctly different processes. b. items stored in short-term memory are fairly permanent. c. rehearsal is necessary in order to move material from sensory memory to short-term memory. d. there are no strict limits in the capacity of short-term memory.
Freud believed that the Electra stage is never fully resolved, and because of this, women are ____
a. more intelligent than men b. more psychologically mature than men c. less psychologically mature than men d. less intelligent than men
Which of the following tastes causes babies to spit?
A) sweet B) sour C) bitter D) salty
Clues to sound localization that require the use of one ear are called ________ clues
a. monoclonic b. monaural c. dichromatic d. monocular