Regarding short-term memory, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Short-term memory is also called working memory.
b. People vary in their short-term memory capacities, but people can increase their capacity by using chunking or other techniques.
c. Short-term memory allows a person to process and retain newly acquired information for about 30 seconds. d. Use of maintenance rehearsal can extend short-term memory.
e. Short-term memory relies more on visual coding than acoustic coding.
e
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a. more than half of North American women over the age of 16 are currently employed. b. women are especially likely to receive negative evaluations when they are in traditionally feminine occupations, such as elementary school teaching. c. employment rates are higher for women in Northern Africa and Central America than for women in North America. d. because mothers in the United States feel guilty about child care, their rate of employment has actually dropped during the past decade.
Studies of the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral treatment for bulimia nervosa have demonstrated a. significant short-term gains in the reduction of purging but little change in binge eating behavior. b. significant short-term gains in the reduction of binge eating but no long-term gains
c. a few short-term gains in the reduction of binge eating and purging but no long-term gains. d. significant short- and long-term gains in the reduction of binge eating and purging.
The following, tsample< tcrit tells us that a sample t is not in the ______.
A. critical region B. t-table C. t score D. p level
_____ believed that the human body was a physical machine but that the human mind was made of an immaterial "thinking substance."
A) Benjamin Libet B) Sigmund Freud C) William James D) René Descartes