You meet a new colleague for the first time, and she gives you her ten-digit phone number (i.e., 8314594050). You don’t have a pen or your phone to record the number. You need to call her at this number this evening. Although this can be a difficult task, it can be made easier by remember the phone number as three numbers (i.e., 831, 459, and 4050) instead of ten individual digits. This example illustrates _____.
a. chunking
b. blocking
c. rehearsal
d. amnesia
a. chunking
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a. practitioners. b. scientists. c. parapsychologists. d. socio-psychologists.
An important study of urban African American teen boys found that ____ was the best predictor of school grades
a. number of parents in the home b. family income c. risk of violence in the neighborhood d. parent education level
Animals who learned to press a bar in a Skinner box showed NO signs of learning if the food reward followed a bar press by more than seconds
a. 10 b. 30 c. 70 d. 100
It is unwise to label a young child mentally retarded because:
A. Most outgrow mental retard nation anyway B. Children change they are evolving C. The child does not have an IQ yet D. It is a medical disorder