Writing the previous year on your checks instead of the current year is an example of
a. retroactive interference
b. encoding specificity.
c. proactive interference.
d. repression.
e. transience.
c. proactive interference.
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a. His improvement of laboratory equipment used in reaction time studies b. His editorship of journals c. His strong relationships with students and other faculty members d. His development of innovative statistical techniques
Which of the following best describes the relationship between genetic variation and relatedness?
A. Though parents' chromosomes can combine in millions of ways, siblings still share half their alleles with one another. B. Genetic variation ensures that the general population has differing genotypes, but siblings have similar genotypes. C. Genetic variation does not occur among related individuals. D. Though siblings are related, due to genetic variation they may share different numbers of alleles.
Which of the following is true about the components of intelligence according to Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?
A. The experiential element is practical and helps people deal with their environment. B. The experiential element determines how efficiently people process information. C. The componential element is the analytic aspect of intelligence. D. The contextual element determines how people approach novel tasks.
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