You read a list of phrases including "bear with me.". Later someone asks you which word on the list was the name of an animal, and you fail to think of bear. Why?
a. Encoding specificity
b. Law of effect
c. Procedural memory
d. Confabulation
d
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Peer pressure tends to enhance school achievement for children who are ____ or ____
a. Caucasian or Asian American b. Native American or Latino c. African American or Pacific Islander d. Caucasian or Latino
In Weiner's attribution theory, ability and effort are _____ characteristics, and task difficulty and luck are _____ factors
a. internal; external b. stability; controllability c. unstable; stable d. situational; dispositional
A witness may select a photo of a suspect from police files or see a photo in the news
Later, the witness identifies the suspect in a lineup or in court. Did the witness really remember the suspect from the scene of the crime? Or was it from the more recently seen photograph? This illustrates the problem of a. false memories. b. eidetic imagery. c. implicit priming. d. semantic memories.
African American men are at the greatest risk of getting testicular cancer.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)