Categorization helps infants learn and remember by
A) teaching them how to group abstract stimuli.
B) enhancing their symbolic understanding.
C) reducing the enormous amount of new information they encounter every day.
D) pairing objects with word associations.
C
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Which of the following is an advantage of group therapy used by psychotherapists?
A) It allows the therapist to work with several clients at once. B) It guarantees that people reveal their personal problems to group members. C) It ensures that people from the same family are not included in the same group. D) It allows the therapist to facilitate one-to-one therapy without making the client feel lonely.
Broadbent's filter model proposes that it is easier to report a message to one ear followed by the message to the other ear because
a. it is easier to organize memory according to where the information arrived. b. attention does not have to be continuously switched. c. reporting by ears requires less capacity. d. people have more practice in using that procedure.
In order to get her 2nd grade students to memorize the poem written on the chalkboard, Mrs. Thyberg gives the students stickers for each poem they can recite from memory. After earning 5 stickers, a student gets to pick a prize out of the goody box. Mrs. Thyberg is using (a) __________ to modify the children's behaviors.
a) token economy b) applied behavior analysis c) negative reinforcement d) classical conditioning.
The key to the partial report method of Sperling's study of sensory memory was to ______________
a) have the participants report the entire matrix of letters they saw as fast as they could. b) have the participants report the entire matrix of letters but mask the letters after presentation with a very bright light. c) cue the participants, using a tone, as to which line of the matrix they were to report. d) test the use of chunking.