The serial-position effect is the tendency for recall of the items in the middle of the list to surpass recall of the first and last items on a list
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Answer: False
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a. Irish b. European Americans c. Asian Indians d. French
Researchers who study scientific thinking among trained and untrained adolescents and adults find that one of the most difficult aspects of science for people understand is that
a. scientific knowledge is constructed by humans by collecting data and revising theories rather than discovering a hidden truth. b. hypotheses need to be tested by collecting evidence. c. one needs to cite evidence in support of one’s theory. d. in any particular scientific question, some variables are causal and some are non-causal.
Maxine is currently sleeping. She is continuing to experience delta waves and she is very hard to rouse. Maxine is in __________ sleep
A) Stage 1 B) Stage 2 C) Stage 4 D) REM
You have been interested in kanji, Japanese logograph symbols, for many years. In fact, you know about 500 of them, which is extraordinarily advanced
Your friends frequently ask you what the symbols mean because they are interested in getting tattoos of them. You are surprised at how many times they ask you about the same symbol. Why is it that you can learn more kanji symbols fairly easily, but your friends barely learn a few symbols? a. You have considerable knowledge, which assists you in learning more. b. You hang around with friends who are not very intelligent. c. Your friends put very little effort in learning the symbols. d. You have special powers of memorization.