Shanna has Korsakoff's syndrome. She couldn't remember what she did last night, so she guessed what she did and told her friend she went to the park. Shanna's story about the park is an example of ______.
A. confabulation
B. working memory
C. flashbulb memory
D. consolidation
Answer: A
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Steve is extremely uptight and controlling. According to Freudian theory, he became fixated at the __________ stage of psychosexual development.
A. oral B. anal C. latency D. genital
Improvements in infant memory that occur around six months after birth may be the result of development in the ____ area of the brain
a. hippocampus b. frontal cortex c. hypothalamus d. occipital lobe
Because ________________ is a primary inhibitory neurotransmitter, it facilitates sleep and reduces arousal of the nervous system
FIll in the blank with correct word.
When a researcher conducts a quasi-experiment, he or she must be careful how the results are interpreted because
a. participants are not randomly assigned to conditions. b. participant reactivity is a problem in quasi-experimental designs. c. there are very few statistical tests to accommodate the data from quasi-experimental designs. d. the researcher has too much freedom to manipulate the independent variable(s).