Martin can't remember who invented flush toilets because he was flirting with a classmate when his history professor described this momentous event. His forgetting appears to be due to
a. ineffective encoding.
b. motivated forgetting.
c. time decay.
d. proactive interference.
A
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a. have intelligence levels similar to non-students b. have more experience with responsibility than non-students c. have less firmly-established self-concepts than do non-students d. are more likely to be ethnic minorities than are non-students
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.
Tierney just came back from seeing a neurologist. He tells him that the neurologist has scheduled a test in which the activity in Tierney's brain will be recorded after radioactive chemicals have been injected into his bloodstream. However, Tierney can't remember the actual name of the test that has been scheduled. It appears that his neurologist is planning:
a. a computerized tomography (CT) scan b. a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan c. an electroencephalograph (EEG) recording d. a positron emission tomography (PET) scan
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
A variable in an ANOVA is an independent factor.