Chapter 7
Refer to the research study described on pages 189 - 190 of your textbook to answer the following question.
Describe the memory errors the subjects in this study made. What is the likely cause of the errors?
What will be an ideal response?
Sometimes the participants remembered words that were not actually on the lists that they were presented earlier. In most cases these were words from the same category as the words that were on the list. One likely cause of these false memories is the associative links that they have with other members of these categories.
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c. Sweden. d. the United States.
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including information about how what we eat has changed even over the last few decades. Which of these are they likely to report to their audience? a) The number of calories consumed has actually declined since 1950. b) We tend to eat out more often and consume more fat and calories than in homemade meals. c) Although the total number of calories has remained about the same, fat calories increased. d) There are no differences in total calories, fat calories, or carbohydrates, but exercise has changed.
According to social-cognitive learning theory, which of these factors intervenes between a person's observation of media violence and his or her likelihood of imitating it?
a. The violence is portrayed as part of a religious story. b. The violence is endorsed by the government. c. How the observer interprets the violent story. d. Whether or not the observer is in a good mood.
Many educators argue that the presence of students from diverse cultures enriches and broadens the educational experiences of all students. This would be an example of __________.
A. diversity reduction B. the pluralistic society model C. the cultural assimilation model D. multicultural education