Lachelle and her mother are playing a memory game. Lachelle's mother says, "Apple, chair, hammer, nail, table, banana," and so on. It is now Lachelle's turn to recall the list of items
Lachelle finds that if she groups the items into categories like fruits, tools, and furniture, she tends to remember more items than if she simply repeats them in the order her mother calls them out. This is an example of
a. cognitive elaboration. c. organization.
b. control strategy. d. rehearsal.
c
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Couples who engage in cohabitation before marriage tend to
a. experience greater satisfaction in the marriage relationship than those who do not live together before marriage. b. have less eventual marital problems if their partner has had multiple cohabitation experiences. c. be more likely to divorce that first-time married couples once they are married. d. be more religious and more committed to marriage than those who do not live together before marriage.
Responses that are not always followed by reinforcement tend to become more and more resistant to extinction, according to the
a. reinforcement-generalization effect. b. partial reinforcement effect. c. Skinner phenomenon. d. reward-extinction corollary.
A person who enrolls in a course in the field of death, dying, and bereavement because his or her Grandmother is terminally ill is primarily expressing a concern about:
a. vocational reasons b. a current death-related experience c. intellectual curiosity about the subject d. the aftermath of an unresolved death-related experience e. all of these
Research that involves the recording of data in numerical form is referred to as __________ research
a. naturalistic b. qualitative c. robust d. quantitative