The nutcracker bird has an impressive memory that enables it to find previously hidden food. It remembers where the hidden food is by recalling important landmarks such as trees. The bird's ____ is responsible for its remarkable memory.
A. prepared learning
B. imprinting
C. larger than normal hippocampus
D. cerebrum
Answer: C
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a. incapable of processing persuasive messages. b. very difficult to persuade. c. just as easy to persuade. d. difficult to persuade if the message is complicated. e. easier to persuade.
According to Anna Freud, when a person adopts the values of a feared person, it is called:
a. altruistic surrender b. synchronicity c. identification with the aggressor d. displacement of the ego
Another term for "photographic memory" is
a. eidetic imagery. c. echoic memory. b. sensory register. d. sensory memory.
You overhear several students studying for an exam in psychology and hear the term natural selection. If they are reviewing various perspectives, which one do you believe is the focus of their review at the moment?
a) cognitive b) humanistic c) psychodynamic d) evolutionary