Allan and Bob are debating the true meaning of the term memory. How does your textbook define this process?
a. ?the acquisition of knowledge through experience
b. ?the ability to learn from environmental stimuli
c. ?the ability to retain knowledge
d. ?the acquisition of sensory information
ANSWER:
c
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What is the main reason we tend to make attributions about the causes of events, others' behavior, and our own behavior?
a. We have a strong need to understand our experiences. b. Attribution making was selected for at some point in our ancestral past. c. We have an unconscious urge to psychoanalyze the behavior of others. d. Having access to information about others tends to fulfill our need for power.
An evolutionary psychologist would be most interested in the question of ____
a. whether gambling affects brain chemistry and fosters addiction b. how best to assist a person to reduce a propensity to gamble c. whether attraction to gambling varies over the life span d. whether there is an adaptive reason why men tend to gamble more than women
Recent research on memory, based largely on fear conditioning in rats, indicates that
A. fear conditioning is the most effective kind of conditioning for forming durable memories. B. memories are not susceptible to disruption once consolidation has occurred. C. when a memory is reactivated, it becomes capable of being changed or altered, just as it was immediately after it was formed. D. memory consolidation does not occur when animals are afraid of a stimulus.
Sexual abuse is common among adolescent girls who suffer from anorexia nervosa
Indicate whether the statement is true or false