Hermann Ebbinghaus found that memory is best immediately after we learn information, and we gradually forget more as time passes. What name is given to this observation?
a. serial position curve
b. mirage effect
c. free recall curve
d. curve of forgetting
d
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Suppose you see photograph of someone with a facial expression of sadness. What would help you recognize it as expressing sadness? a. The eyes should be looking down
b. The eyes should be looking straight at you. c. One eyebrow should be higher than the other. d. The mouth should be wide open.
The linguistic relativity hypothesis states that
a. the words we use not only reflect our thoughts but can shape them as well. b. a simple declarative sentence may be changed to other voices or forms, such as past tense, passive voice, and so forth. c. there is a tendency during group problem solving for one person's ideas to trigger ideas from others. d. people have a tendency to select wrong answers because they seem to match preexisting mental categories.
If we wanted to predict job performance using the results of a personality test and an intelligence test, which of the following statistical techniques would be best to use?
a. Coefficient of determination b. Linear regression c. Multiple regression d. Correlation
The Skeptics suggested that by ____, one could avoid the frustration of being wrong.?
a. ?arriving at one's beliefs very carefully b. ?believing only in ideas held by the majority of people c. ?following one's own natural impulses d. ?not believing in anything