The textbook describes a famous research participant, S.F., who was able to memorize eighty-four digits, though his memory for letters was still about average. One lesson to be learned from this study is that
a. people like S.F. are unique, and the strategies used by S.F. are not applicable to the rest of us.
b. you, too, can structure information as S.F. did, but the structure must be similar to the one used by S.F.
c. information can only be structured only if it is linked to rules, meaning, or codes in long-term memory.
d. you, too, can structure information according to its personal meaning to you.
Answer: d. you, too, can structure information according to its personal meaning to you.
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a. the intelligence of the group members. b. members’ ability to resist their biases. c. the degree of training the group members have received. d. the use of teamwork procedures. e. appropriate interpersonal processes during the decision-making phases.
The bottleneck theory is inadequate in accounting for attention because
a. it proposes that humans have many different kinds of attention, and the current research shows that they have only one kind. b. it explains only the data gathered with the event-related potential technique, and not with other neuroscience research methods. c. it argues that people actually filter out very little irrelevant information. d. it underestimates the flexibility of our attention.
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What will be an ideal response?
Distinguish between REM and NREM sleep. Trace a typical night's sleep through its various stages, explaining what happens at each point
What will be an ideal response?