You look up the phone number of your favorite pizza maker and say it over and over to yourself as you walk across the room to the phone. Before you reach the phone, your roommate bursts in and exclaims, "Look at this-it's the new Pink album!" "Cool!" you reply. Then you become frustrated because you cannot remember the phone number. This is most likely due to interruption in the process of
A. decay.
B. proactive inhibition.
C. selective attention.
D. the primacy effect.
Answer: C
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for this? a. ?Asha is in Piaget’s formal operations stage of cognitive development and has not yet overcome centration. b. ?Asha is in Piaget’s concrete operations stage of cognitive development and has not yet overcome conservation. c. ?Asha is in Piaget’s preoperations stage of cognitive development and has not yet overcome egocentrism. d. ?Asha is in Piaget’s sensorimotor stage of cognitive development and has not yet mastered object permanence.
fMRI scans reveal that the _____ is activated when people make judgements of whether they possess certain personality traits compared with judging whether the traits apply to someone else.
A) right prefrontal cortex B) hippocampus C) medial prefrontal cortex D) left temporal lobe
The idea that quantitative properties of an object are invariant despite changes in the object's appearance is what Jean Piaget termed:
A) conservation. B) object permanence. C) assimilation. D) accommodation.
Danielle, a single mother, is raising three children on a limited income. Over the last few months, she has become so "stressed out" that she is anxious and irritable, and has been experiencing frequent migraine headaches. According to the general adaptation syndrome, Danielle must be in the
a. stage of resistance. b. stage of exhaustion. c. alarm reaction. d. stage of degeneration.