I was a second-semester freshman. I was eating French fries in the college cafeteria when my friend Liz came up. She was wearing that plaid coat with her yellow skirt, along with that moss-green embroidered bag, the one with a Grecian urn embroidered on it. She told me the shuttle blew up. This is my _________ memory of the 1986 Challenger disaster.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


flashbulb

Psychology

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a. prevents one from using discriminative processing b. forces one to use discriminative processing c. makes it more likely we will look at the material the same way d. forces one to think about the details of the material and miss the main point

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Lindsay has just received news that her father has died. While on the phone with her sister, she kept saying, "But I just talked to him 2 days ago! He's been so healthy. We were going to run a marathon together!" Which phase of mourning is Lindsay in?

A. anger B. shock C. accommodation D. balance

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Which of the following describes a way in which the culturally deficient model differed from the genetically deficient model?

A. The culturally deficient model favored Whites. B. The culturally deficient model focused on external factors, such as environment. C. The culturally deficient model attended to cognitive abilities. D. The culturally deficient model came after mass migration to the United States.

Psychology

The linguistic-relativity hypothesis predicts that speakers of different languages

a. conceptualize the world differently. b. employ similar concepts, even though their vocabulary differs. c. comprehend the rules that govern their language. d. use a universal grammar to govern their language.

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