Sam and Sue are shopping for groceries. Sam looks at the list and tells Sue, "I'll get the cat food, soap, toilet paper, and flour, and I'll meet you by the lettuce." Sam takes off, muttering to himself over and over: "Cat food, soap, toilet paper, flour." This best illustrates the use of which memory strategy?
a. Chunking
b. Elaboration
c. Organization
d. Rehearsal
d
You might also like to view...
If a person has partial or fragmentary deficits with dementia, it is referred to as
a. partial deficit debilitation. b. inconsistent deficit to dementia. c. patchy distribution of deficits. d. specialized deficit dementia.
The hormone thyroxine, secreted by the thyroid gland, is essential for the normal growth of the
a. gonads, especially in boys. b. extremities of the head, such as nose, ears, and lips. c. internal organs, such as the kidneys and liver. d. brain and bones.
In _____, researchers test the outcome of a manualized therapy on a particular diagnosis. Participants are randomly assigned to treatment or nontreatment groups, and target variables are assessed at the outset and end of the study.
A. independent trials B. dependent trials C. randomized clinical trials D. homogenized clinical trials
According to the textbook, research on the development of the self-concept using the "red dye" test (placing a red dot on the forehead of the child and then showing the child his or her reflection
in the mirror and seeing whether the child touches the red dot on the "baby in the mirror" or his or her own head) indicates that the self-concept in human infants develops at, on average, age a. 6–8 months. b. 12–14 months. c. 18–24 months. d. 2–3 years.