__________ is the type of developmental change which occurs due to unique events in an
individual's experience.
Fill in the blanks with correct word
Nonnormative change
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Which of the following students provides the best understanding of the concept called elaboration?
a. Harry: "Elaboration means that you retrieve an item from working memory and use it immediately. b. Jodi: "Elaboration happens when you have successfully used encoding specificity." c. Elizabeth: "Elaboration means that you are trying to make an item as different as possible from all other items in memory." d. Soltan: "Elaboration means that you think about how an item is related to other concepts."
According to the introductory discussion about schemas in Chapter 8,
a. behaviorists frequently used the term "schema" in their theories. b. Piaget applied the concept of schemas to infants. c. outside the area of cognitive psychology, other psychologists rarely discuss the concept of schemas. d. Sigmund Freud was the first to incorporate the concept of a schema into a psychological theory.
If Jamie has trouble sleeping, he usually gets up and munches on some cookies, pretzels, or dry cereal; and this seems to help him sleep. This sleep-inducing technique
a. precipitates a placebo effect only. b. increases the amount of tryptophan reaching his brain and increases serotonin levels. c. is known as the paradoxical intention, since eating should prevent sleep. d. decreases the norepinephrine and dopamine levels in the brain, resulting in sleep.
In the context of the five-factor model, who among the following used the 4,500 presumably stable traits identified by Allport and Odbert as a starting point for his lexical analysis of personality traits?
A. Fiske B. Christal C. Norman D. Raymond Cattell