Suppose you (a student) are asked by a teacher to learn a poem you will recite in front of your class. Soon after, both you and a classmate, J.P., are asked by another teacher to learn the lyrics to an unfamiliar song. When you and J.P. are later asked to remember the song lyrics, you have a much more difficult time recalling them than J.P. does. This impairment of your performance is most likely
attributable to
a. proactive interference.
b. your overloading the phonological loop.
c. a release from proactive interference.
d. a recency effect.
a
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Why have many experiments somewhat underestimated people's ability to recognize facial expressions of emotion? a. They used photographs in which all faces were posed looking in different directions. b. They used photographs in which all faces were posed looking straight at the camera. c. They gave people a list of emotions and asked them to match faces to the list
d. They asked for fine distinctions, such as the difference between guilt and shame.
According to B.F. Skinner, when parents require that children's utterances of words be progressively closer to actual words before they are reinforced, this is called
a. grammatical construction. b. expressive vocabulary. c. shaping. d. negative reinforcement.
Some cultures believe semen is essential throughout pregnancy for proper fetal development
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Five-year-old Steven climbs up the small tree in his parents' backyard. When he's ready to come down, he begins to cry for his mother to help. Steven's inability to retrace his steps to go back down the tree illustrates that Steven's thinking lacks
a. animism. b. reversibility. c. object permanence. d. conservation.