After taking the college entrance exam, Sidney was very upset as she drove home. She felt she had done poorly on the exam. The fact that Sidney was able to drive the familiar route home and arrive safely, even though she was so preoccupied thinking about the exam is due to her ___________________ memory.
A. implicit
B. explicit
C. semantic
D. episodic
A. implicit
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A. the behavioral perspective B. the psychodynamic perspective C. operant conditioning D. classical conditioning
Funahashi and coworkers recorded neurons in the PF cortex of monkeys during a delayed response task. These neurons showed the most intense firing during
a. stimulus presentation. b. delay. c. response. d. encoding.
A study is done on the effect of surviving a tornado on children's self-esteem. Survivors are compared to others with a self-esteem test. This study applied the method of
a. a true experiment. b. a natural (or quasi-) experiment. c. tabula rasa. d. structured observation.
The ____ principle, which dominates preschoolers' reasoning, interferes with conservation
a. animism b. centration c. identity training d. dual representation