The best analogy for the way long-term memory is conceptualized would be _________

a) a revolving door
b) a filing cabinet
c) a desktop
d) a television


ANS: B, Long-term memory can be thought of as a huge filing cabinet in which items are stored in an organized manner.

Psychology

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of , which refers to the fact that animals tend to share many different properties. a. obstruction b. convergence c. crowding d. overlapping

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b. calcium pumps. c. anterograde transport within neurons. d. retrograde transport within neurons.

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Operant conditioning is used every day in the _____ of young children

A) evaluation B) socialization C) transition D) maturation

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a. increase; the standard error of the difference between means b. decrease; the standard error of the difference between means c. increase; alpha d. decrease; alpha

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