The most famous delayed gratification task involves ______.
A. asking children to choose between a small piece of candy today or an entire bag of chips tomorrow
B. asking children to choose between one marshmallow now or two marshmallows 15 min from now
C. requiring children to wait 4 min to eat a cookie
D. requiring children to finish a sandwich before playing with a desired toy
Answer: B
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a. People who speak different languages perceive the world differently. b. No cultures really exist that have only two words for colors. c. The range of people's thoughts is not limited by their vocabulary. d. The structure of thought is shaped by language.
If a test is measuring what it intends to measure, then it is called
A) reliable B) trustworthy C) accurate D) valid
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A) She is perceived to be a bit snobbish by her classmates. B) She outperforms the majority of her classmates in schoolwork. C) She tends to be well-liked by her classmates. D) She often gets other classmates into trouble.
If our ears are exposed to a nearby person mumbling a nursery rhyme in a crowded cafe, but we don't pay attention to it, what happens to that stimulus?
A. It immediately vanishes from short-term memory. B. It is parked in working memory for later processing. C. Its data traces are converted into a declarative memory. D. It is transferred to the episodic buffer for implicit encoding.