According to Laundauer (1986), the capacity of long-term memory may be the same as ______.

a. the total number of pieces of information available to humans
b. the number of synapses in the brain
c. your age multiplied by 100
d. that of a large rat


b. the number of synapses in the brain

Psychology

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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According to Piaget, magical thinking is common during the preschool years because young children __________

A) fail to distinguish others’ symbolic viewpoints from their own B) egocentrically assign human purposes to physical events C) cannot mentally go through a series of steps in a problem and then reverse direction D) believe that physical characteristics of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes

Psychology

Which of the following describes how people make predictable mistakes when trying to weigh outcomes and probabilities?

A. prospect theory B. rational economic thinking C. bounded rationality D. irrational economic thinking

Psychology

As compared to nonmusicians, musicians have

A. thinner corpus callosum. B. larger cerebellums. C. fewer neurons. D. more white matter.

Psychology