In most societies it is encouraged that someone be with the dying at the time of death
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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Which of the following statements best illustrates the link between evolutionary theory and psychosocial theory?
a. Through patterns of reinforcement, genetics is linked to individual development during adulthood. b. Adults strengthen their genetic make-up and influence as they age. c. The process of cultural survival is considered random in specific generations. d. Individuals face a continuous struggle to adapt traits and abilities to environmental demands.
Tom often smokes while studying in his apartment. Of course, he cannot smoke during his exams. This may make retrieval of the material more difficult because of ____
a. ?encoding specificity b. ?episodic memory c. ?context-dependent memory d. ?short-term memory
Which of the following students provides the best summary about the current status of the information-processing approach?
a. Alena: "The information-processing approach is now more popular than the parallel distributed processing approach, because most cognitive tasks require serial processing." b. Magda: "The information-processing approach has declined in popularity during recent years, because those models are not complex enough to explain many cognitive activities." c. Dave: "The Atkinson-Shiffrin information-processing model is still extremely popular, and it remains at the cutting edge of cognitive psychology." d. Samuel: "The most important model is one in which the information-processing approach has been blended with the gestalt approach, in order to explain higher mental processes."
According to the research on divided-attention tasks, when people divide their attention between two stimuli,
a. they usually perform very accurately. b. they report that their performance accuracy suffers, but in reality, they simply perform the tasks more slowly. c. they typically make more errors. d. their performance shifts from serial processing to parallel processing.