Which aspect of the trip to Home Depot represents procedural memory?

a) knowing how to scan your own purchases
b) being able to distinguish flat from semi-gloss paint
c) knowing when to use latex or silicone caulk for windows
d) being able to remember the manufacturer of the tile you purchased last year


ANS: a

Psychology

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Froggy, age 10, tells friends about his trip to Paris: "So the French people seated next to us ate their pie crust first!" Eating the crust first on a pie was memorable to Froggy because

a. it deviates from the American script of eating the pie crust last. b. French meat pies might contain cooked snails. c. French pies are cooked more thoroughly than in America. d. Froggy was inclined to make the story seem exotic.

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Which of the following requires that the observer take the perspective of the model, understand the model's goal, and reproduce important portions of the model's behavior?

a. mimicry c. imitative learning b. emulation d. instructive learning

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After a conditioned stimulus comes to elicit the conditioned response, that conditioned stimulus now can be paired with a new neutral stimulus and this second neutral stimulus will start to elicit a conditioned response

This process is called _______________. a) higher-order conditioning b) neoclassical conditioning c) generalization d) operant conditioning

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