Uncle Rico hears voices telling him he is a very bad person. Current thinking is that ______.
A. he is misperceiving his self-generated thoughts
B. he is misinterpreting some external sound as a voice
C. his sense of hearing is somehow cross-wired with another brain area
D. he has a hypersensitive sense of hearing, and is picking up the insults of his friends in the next room
Answer: A
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a. Stimulus generalization b. Consolidation c. Forgetting d. Hypermnesia
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a) memories can be susceptible to interference from newer information, which may displace or block out old information preventing its recall b) the memory/memories have not been retrieved often enough to become enduring c) the appropriate or necessary prompt for the memory is not available d) neuronal-synaptic pruning erases early childhood memories
When we compare scores across three or more groups, we are using a(n) ______ design.
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