Your friend Benjamin tells you that he's going to study for his upcoming exam by setting aside six hours one day to devote solely to the material. Having learned much from your psychology class, you explain to Benjamin that it's much more effective for him to utilize __________ to study because it will help him to spread out the material and learn it more deeply.
A. distributed practice
B. massed practice
C. the recency effect
D. the primacy effect
Answer: A
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a. correlational data. b. false dichotomies. c. slippery slopes. d. experimentation.
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a. There is pressure toward conformity. b. There is a high degree of self-censorship. c. There is a sense of moral superiority. d. There is a weak, non-directive group leader.
A popular diet company hires a physician to advertise their weight-loss program. Which source variable is the company trying to influence?
a. likeability b. similarity c. credibility d. originality e. attractiveness
Shepard and Meltzer measured the time it took for participants to decide whether two objects were the same (two different views of the same object) or different (two different objects). These researchers inferred cognitive processes by using
a. image scanning. b. mental chronometry. c. epiphenomena. d. propositional representations.