The BEST example of metamemory would involve knowing that:
A. whales are mammals, not fish.
B. a 10-word list of unfamiliar foreign words will be harder to recall than a 20-word list of familiar words.
C. 10 + 20 = 30.
D. foreign words come from another country.
Answer: B
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a. when a physician arranges for the patient to administer a lethal dose of medication. b. when a physician removes a patient's feeding tube. c. a legal means of ending a terminally ill person's life in New Jersey. d. passive euthanasia.
If I want to summarize the characteristics of my statistics class to my friend, I should use
a. an experimental design. b. a correlational design. c. inferential statistics. d. descriptive statistics.
There is evidence that slow-wave sleep is important for:
a. Brain recuperation b. Restoration of processes involved in cognition c. Cooling off a heated brain d. All of the above
Jeff has had Juan as his roommate for a semester. Jeff, who has a low opinion of his own athletic skills, has been praised by Juan on a number of occasions for his (Jeff's) play during intramural football games
To begin the spring semester, Jeff has asked for a new roommate. What's going on here? Describe the basic self-presentational underpinnings, and give a more specific theoretical explanation for Jeff's behavior.