The influential studies of eyewitness memory that were carried out by Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues led to the general conclusion that eyewitnesses' memories are
a. reliable under most circumstances.
b. vulnerable to post-event information.
c. reliable despite the effects of post-event information.
d. reliable, but only when the witness is motivated.
Answer: b. vulnerable to post-event information.
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A puppy has begun to cry and bark in order to be let into the house. To extinguish this response, you would
a. let the puppy in the house. b. ignore the crying, letting the puppy in when quiet. c. swat the puppy with a newspaper whenever it cried. d. let the puppy in when it cries, then swat it with a newspaper.
A disturbance in the production or processing of language is known as
A. anoxia. B. apraxia. C. agnosia. D. aphasia.
A mechanism by which experts in a field carefully screen the work of their colleagues is known as
A) experimental validity. B) experimenter bias effect. C) peer review. D) peer assessment.