College students who memorized 20 lists of words (one list each day)
recalled only 15 percent of the last list. Students who learned only one list recalled 80 percent of it. This is best explained by which explanation of forgetting?
a. memory decay
b. interference
c. state-dependent learning
d. encoding failure
ANSWER: b
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a. parents' ratings of their preschoolers' interest are not correlated with the ratings provided by other observers, so we cannot draw conclusions about this topic. b. there are no gender differences reported for preschoolers. c. parents who accept gentle behaviors in their sons typically have sons who are interested in babies. d. preschool boys have such strong stereotypes about masculinity that they consistently avoid interactions with babies.
As people learn new things throughout life, dendrites grow and new synapses are formed. This is due to
parasympathetic division. | ||
neurogenesis. | ||
sympathetic division. | ||
neuroplasticity. |
Stress reactions can involve all of the following processes EXCEPT
a. Physiological b. Behavioral c. Cognitive d. Distal Risk Factors
At the end of an experiment, a p value is calculated in order to determine if the results
happened by A) placebo effect B) experimenter effect C) correlation D) chance or luck