Liv has just seen a commercial advertising a fancy kind of make-up that she would like to buy
She does not have a pen or a piece of paper to write down the telephone number, so she repeats to herself over and over again while she runs into the kitchen to find the telephone. Liv is currently using the process of _____ rehearsal to keep the telephone number active in her short-term memory.
A) distributed
B) elaborative
C) maintenance
D) semantic
Answer: C
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According to the discussion of individual differences in Chapter 1 of your textbook,
a. behaviorists pay more attention to individual differences than cognitive psychologists do. b. cognitive psychologists now emphasize individual differences more than in earlier decades. c. cognitive psychologists have always studied psychological disorders more than they have studied developmental psychology. d. cognitive psychologists believe that research about individual differences has some practical applications, but individual differences are not theoretically interesting.
Persuasion is more successful when the source
a. has high credibility. b. is more intelligent. c. has preexisting attitudes. d. is perceived as different from the receiver.
Rosa is in her first trimester and her mother continually encourages her to eat more reminding her that she is now eating for two. Based upon the text, is Rosa's mother giving her sound advice?
a. Yes, women who are pregnant should double their caloric intake. b. No, women who are pregnant only need about 300 more calories. c. Yes, pregnant women should eat more but it should come from grains. d. No, pregnant women should not eat more as their bodies do not need any more calories than an average woman.
What did G. J. Whitehurst's researchon reading to toddlers demonstrate?
a. Reading to children in any fashion resulted in the same outcomes. b. Dialogic reading helped children gain more vocabulary than typical reading. c. Dialogic reading can hinder a child's natural ability to learn to read. d. Toddlers can make vocabulary gains by looking at picture books.