Mandisa was trying desperately to learn her new Spanish vocabulary, but her knowledge of German kept getting in the way. Mandisa was experiencing _____
Fill in the blank with correct word
Answer: proactive interference
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Sociologists studying the effects of media violence would be more likely than social psychologists to
a. conduct experiments manipulating the amount of media violence viewed by participants. b. assess changes in television availability and in murder rates in populations of entire cities over the last 30years c. concern themselves with situational variables that moderate the effects of media violence on its viewers. d. focus on the types of individuals who choose to view media violence.
When Caitlin falls and hurts herself, she runs to her mother crying. Rather than comforting Caitlin, her mother offers her a toy to distract her. Her mother is a(n)
proximal parent. distal parent. authoritative parent. slow-to-warm-up parent.
A child talking to herself as she draws a picture would be interpreted by Piaget as an
indication of __________, but by Vygotsky as a sign of __________. a. abstract thinking; inner speech b. concrete thinking; cultural influence c. egocentrism; her development of a mental plan to guide subsequent behavior d. an inability to conserve; her failure to produce inner speech and thus mental representation e. egocentrism; information processing
Which of the following statements is accurate regarding the early perspectives of structuralism and functionalism?
psychology. b. Structuralism died out almost immediately, but functionalism remains a driving force in the field of psychology. c. Structuralism turned into the psychoanalytic school of thought, and functionalism turned into the behavioral school of thought in psychology. d. Structuralism and functionalism remain the two most widely held perspectives in the field of psychology.