Memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occurred are called:

a. procedural memories.
b. semantic memories.
c. short-term memories.
d. episodic memories.


D

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a. twin studies prove the predominance of nurture b. adoption studies prove the predominance of nature c. intervention programs show that intelligence is fixed at birth d. both nature and nurture contribute to the formation of intelligence

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Janice was taking part in an experiment in the sleep lab

She was given a verbal task to learn under two conditions. In condition one, she was deprived of NREM sleep the following sleep period. In condition two, she was deprived of only REM sleep. Under which condition was she likely to do better on the verbal task the next day, and why? a) Condition one, because we spend more time in NREM than REM sleep. b) Condition one, because memory is consolidated during NREM sleep. c) Condition two, because memory is consolidated during REM sleep. d) Condition two, because we spend more time in REM than NREM sleep.

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Which of the following is TRUE regarding hand preference handedness?

a. A premature birth is more common among left-handed infants. b. Left-handed people are less likely to have problems learning to read than right- handed people. c. Children do not show hand preference until the middle of kindergarten when they are learning to write. d. Left-handed people tend to have poorer verbal and math ability than right-handed people.

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The Thematic Apperception Test was developed by ______

a. Murray c. Wechsler b. Termin d. Bandura

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