Corey wrote a short story for his Creative Writing class about a high schooler who’s scientist-friend invents a car that functions as a time machine. The high schooler travels back in time and has to reunite his parents in order to return to the present. The teacher realizes the storyline is the plot of a famous movie, but Cory honestly believes he came up with it on his own. Cory is probably suffering from ______.
a. repression
b. cryptomnesia
c. know-it-all-along effect
d. an output monitoring failure
Ans: B
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a. melancholic c. disorganized b. paranoid d. catatonic
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the relationship between IQ and breastfeeding?
a. As a group, children who are breastfed have higher IQs than those who are not, but the benefits of breastfeeding to an individual child varies with his or her genetics. b. Breastfeeding does not have a significant effect on child IQ, because IQ is nearly completely determined by the child's genetics. c. Mothers who breastfeed their infants have higher IQs than those who do not, so the higher IQs of breastfed children is probably related to genetics. d. Breastfeeding raises the IQ of children regardless of their genetic makeup.
According to Piaget, a four-year-old child is most likely to exhibit which of the following characteristics?
A. Decentration B. Logical thinking C. Egocentrism D. Abstract reasoning
Maxine, a physics lecturer, assigns her students a five-page-long assignment on the theory of relativity that needs to be submitted in two days. Only 40% of the class completes the assignment within the specified time. Noticing the delay in submission, Maxine tries to convince her students in a different way. She tells them that though the assignment involves extensive research and is difficult to complete within a short time, it is important as the scores obtained will be added to their physics theory scores. The next day, almost 70% of the class turns up with their assignments. In the context of persuasion, this scenario illustrates:
A. a two-sided appeal. B. the primacy effect. C. cognitive dissonance. D. belief perseverance.