Percy is shown a picture of a male nurse. Later, when asked to describe the occupation of the person in the picture, Percy remembers him as a doctor. Percy __________
A) does not yet have a well-developed gender schema
B) is not using his gender-salience filter
C) is a gender-aschematic child
D) is a gender-schematic child
Answer: D
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a. ?top-down processing b. ?bottom-up processing c. ?feature detection d. ?the amount of practice she has had
Researchers who are studying cognitive processes can monitor only one neuron at a time.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The case of Henry Gustav Molaison, cited in your text, demonstrates two significant findings about the relationship between memory and the hippocampus: short-term memories are not dependent on a functioning hippocampus, and long-term memories
A) must be stored in the hippocampus. B) employ an indirect route for processing. C) must pass through the hippocampus to be stored. D) may bypass the hippocampus entirely.
Experimental research like that of Sheldon and colleagues shows that people trained to adopt competence goals showed greater improvements than people who adopted goals for non-competence reasons. This research indicates that
a. competence can be learned. b. competence is due to nature. c. the need for competence is developmental. d. the need for competence is universal.