Dr. Kahn measures how long baby Lydia looks at a particular stimulus. The technique is known as
a. preferential looking.
b. dishabituation.
c. habituation.
d. stimulus discrimination.
a
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a. people are not very accurate in guessing which pairs of words they are likely to recall at a later time. b. people clearly underestimate their ability to recall pairs of words at a later time. c. people clearly overestimate their ability to recall pairs of words at a later time. d. people have fairly accurate metamemory when the stimuli are pairs of words.
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Which of the following does not belong?
a. Knowledge is stored in a semantic network. b. Activation in the network spreads along nodes activating new nodes and pathways. c. As the activation spreads, the amount of activation lessens. d. All activation requires computations to determine category membership.