Laura finds that she remembered the items best when she grouped them by category. For example, giraffe, lion and frog are animals and bed, sofa and table are furniture items. What encoding strategy is Laura using?
A. residual encoding
B. organizational encoding
C. visual imagery encoding
D. elaborative encoding
E. sensory encoding
B. organizational encoding
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_____________ psychology is the field of study devoted to understanding the relationship between biology, behavior, and social context and overall well-being and rates of illness.
A. Physiological B. Developmental C. Health D. Medicinal
After a doctor performs a routine blood analysis and finds unusually high levels of cortisol, what might she ask her patient?
a. Have you been facing a lot of stress lately? b. Have you been eating foods high in cholesterol? c. Have you been abusing any drugs? d. Have you been feeling depressed?
Traps in thinking that can lead to mistaken conclusions are called
A) confirmation biases. B) experiential thought patterns. C) logical fallacies. D) systematic information biases.
The area of psychology that is interested in looking for the adaptive benefits of selected human behaviors is known as ________ psychology
a) ethological b) anthropological c) evolutionary d) archaeological