Based on the false memory studies reviewed, who might you expect would be most likely to create a false memory?
a. an individual with very few life experiences and related schemata
b. an individual with skepticism of others’ suggestions and descriptions of events
c. an individual with an active imagination who ruminates on imagined events
d. an individual with an otherwise photographic memory
c. an individual with an active imagination who ruminates on imagined events
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A) antisocial B) schizotypal C) avoidant D) paranoid
In studies of parenting attitudes, parents in Puerto Rico, Nigeria, and Japan emphasized ____ more than parents in German, Dutch and European American parents
a. making your own choices b. responsibility to family c. responsibility to elders d. both ‘b' and ‘c'
You go to Africa to study elephants
You follow one particular group, and one day you observe the other members of the group gather around a sick and dying elephant. The healthy elephants shuffle and trumpet and act in an agitated manner. You conclude that they are sad because one of their members is dying. Without any other evidence, you have just a. committed the anthropomorphic error. b. become involved in the observer effect. c. engaged in research participant bias. d. created an empirical fallacy.
Meg easily recalls which route she took this morning to the salon that is three blocks away. This kind of recalling involves _______________ processing.
A. structural B. phonological C. effortful D. automatic