Suppose you meet someone, and you can recall both her face and her name, but you cannot recall exactly where you first met her. In terms of parallel distributed processing, this phenomenon would be called
a. graceful degradation.
b. reassignment of connection weights.
c. spontaneous generalization.
d. a default assignment.
Ans: a
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a. the classic trait approach to leadership. b. a normative model of leadership. c. transformational leadership. d. task-oriented leadership.
Suppose that several psychologists want to explore interpersonal interactions during adulthood. Which of the following topics would be most consistent with the cognitive approach?
a. "How do early childhood experiences contribute to the development of love relationships during adulthood?" b. "Can interpersonal attraction be influenced by classical conditioning?" c. "When meeting someone for the first time, what attribute does a person perceive most quickly, gender or ethnicity?" d. "Do people spend less time with depressed individuals, as opposed to nondepressed individuals?"
In the brain, the ________ serves as a relay station between the endocrine system and the central nervous system
a. thalamus b. hippocampus c. hypothalamus d. cerebral cortex
Figure drawing and sentence completion tasks are examples of ______
a. objective personality tests b. achievement tests c. neuropsychological tests d. projective tests