After breaking up her twin sons' fight, Mary asks her mother, Georgia, what she did when Mary and her sister argued. Georgia answers that Mary and her brother never fought and that she only remembers the children playing well. This situation is an example of
A. avoidance-denial strategy.
B. working memory.
C. prospective memory.
D. positivity bias.
Answer: D
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a. True b. False
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A. "Only One Scale on IQ Tests: Limitations to Fairness." B. "The Barrier of Anxiety." C. "Strangers in White Coats: Why Children May Perform Poorly." D. "How Fear of Making Mistakes Leads to Leaving Questions Blank."
Negative reinforcement lowers behavior rates
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
During the bank robbery, Edna kept reminding herself that she needed to try to remember what the two criminals looked like. This process of memory was__________
a) storage. b) consolidation. c) encoding. d) retrieval.