Define the distinction between proactive and retroactive interference.
What will be an ideal response?
According to interference theory, people forget, not because memories are lost from storage, but because other information gets in the way of what they want to remember. There are two kinds of interference: proactive and retroactive. Proactive interference occurs when material that was learned earlier disrupts the recall of material learned later. Retroactive interference occurs when material learned later disrupts the retrieval of information learned earlier.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Most researchers today believe that children take an active role in their own development. According to current theories of developmental science, how do children take an active role in their development?
What will be an ideal response?
Watson and Rayner used ________ to condition a fear of white rats in Little Albert
a) operant conditioning b) observational learning c) classical conditioning d) all of the above
Canadian researcher Hans Selye made which of the following important contributions to the field of health psychology?
a) The distinction between distress and eustress b) The distinction between stressors that are psychogenic or neurogenic c) The distinction between the effects of controllable and uncontrollable stressors d) The "goodness of fit" hypothesis