Jess memorizes a list of words. One week later, he is asked to write as many of the words as he can recall, but he remembers only a few of the words. Then Jess is asked to fill in the missing letters of word fragments. Some of the words on this task are from the list he had been asked to memorize a week ago, and some are not. Jess fills in the blanks of the words he had seen a week ago faster and
more accurately, compared to words that had not been on the list. This study demonstrates the effect of ____.
a. ?parallel distributed processing
b. ?mnemonic strategies
c. ?priming
d. ?mental models
ANSWER:
c
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A. hippocampus B. amygdala C. cortex D. occipital lobe
One of the general principles of psychoactive drug use is that
A. all psychoactive drugs should be banned. B. most people are unable to control their own drug use. C. every drug has an opposite drug that can counteract it. D. drugs, per se, are not good or bad.
An expert on media violence has been asked to testify before Congress. What is she likely to say concerning violence on television?
a) Television violence is sanitized, so there is little blood, gore, or pain. b) The violence on television is not different than the reports of violence that we see and hear on television. c) Most children nowadays are accustomed to dealing with fantasy via various forms of media and understand the concept and content of media violence. d) The message tends to work two ways – it can increase violence or it can decrease violence because of the graphic nature of much of the television violence.
Distinguish between a primary source and a secondary source.
What will be an ideal response?