Susan's mom called her on her cell phone and asked her to pick up eight items from the grocery store on her way home from work. As Susan was standing on a bus without access to her phone, she couldn't make a list of the items on it, so she had to memorize the items. She grouped them into categories of food, drinks, and home supplies, thereby making use of _____ encoding.
A) visual imagery
B) elaborative
C) organizational
D) digital memory
C) organizational
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A) actor-observer effect B) fear appeal C) primacy effect D) fundamental attribution error
Which of the following is true of glial cells?
a. they have direct contact with the outside world b. they carry messages from the brain to muscles to produce behaviors c. they remove wastes from the central nervous system d. they carry information toward the spinal cord and brain
Claims on behalf of the legitimacy of rational suicide are generally founded on
a. the absence of pain and suffering b. individual autonomy and self-determination c. disagreement with those who assist in the process d. self-abnegation e. the doctrine of inimicality
In order to estimate the amount of TV watched by New York City adults, a sociologist surveys a random sample of adults from this city. All of the New York City adults constitute a _________
a. population c. statistic b. sample d. parameter