In a research experiment, Nathan hears the following list of words:
orange, belt, table, swing, cheese, walk, sting, camel, shell, tan, ivy, cola, plane, screen, egg. When the list is completed, which of the following words will most likely be in Nathan's long-term memory?
A. Belt
B. Walk
C. Ivy
D. Screen
Answer: A
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a. the differences are due to sampling error. b. the probability of finding a difference that large if the population means are equal is very low. c. the probability of finding a difference that large if the population means are equal is very high. d. the distribution is not normal.
A patient suffers damage to the nervous system. He can move his hands, but he does not feel anything with them. Which explanation is the neurologist most likely to offer?
A. efferent neurons are damaged B. the reflex arc is damaged C. afferent neurons have been damaged D. Alzheimer's disease
When television was introduced to the island of Fiji,
a. normally thin girls developed the strong desire to gain weight. b. normally thin boys developed the strong desire to gain weight. c. girls who had seen a plump body as a status symbol developed the strong desire to lose weight. d. boys who had seen a plump body as a status symbol developed the strong desire to lose weight.
Hala and Chandler found that two-and-a-half to five-year-olds delight in deceiving a second player in a treasure-hunt game by destroying evidence of the location of the treasure or by laying down false trails. These results
a. contradict Piaget's claim that preschoolers are incapable of perspective-taking. b. support Piaget's claim that preschoolers are incapable of perspective-taking. c. are irrelevant to the issue of preschoolers' perspective-taking capability. d. support Piaget's view that perspective-taking first emerges during the sensorimotor stage.