A frazzled mother trying to pacify her fussy toddler while paying her bill at the supermarket suddenly realizes that she has forgotten to buy the most important item on her list. Forgetting to purchase the item is an example of:
A) change bias.
B) absentmindedness.
C) transience.
D) proactive interference.
B) absentmindedness.
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What do night terrors and sleepwalking have in common with each other?
a. They become more common in old age. b. They result from a lack of orexin in the brain. c. They occur as a result of obesity. d. They occur during non-REM sleep.
Maternal employment in the United States
a. increased dramatically in the 1970s and 1980s, but has declined since that time. b. is rare in the United States, but common in other countries. c. has increased dramatically in the past 50 years. d. has had a negative impact on children's psychological functioning.
Much research has demonstrated a weak link between (a) what people say their attitudes are, and (b) how they actually behave. According to the text, one of the key reasons that this relationship is so weak, however, is the fact that researchers have often ____
a. tried to relate very general attitudes to very specific behaviors b. tried to relate very specific attitudes to very general behaviors c. limited their research in this area to very sensitive topics (e.g., sexual attitudes and behaviors), where attitude-behavior inconsistencies are especially likely to occur d. limited their research in this area to topics that research participants are unlikely to care much about (e.g., the number of minutes they will spend on a particular experimental task), where attitude-behavior inconsistencies are especially likely to occur
According to your textbook, the shared environment of the home has a strong influence on a child's personality development
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.