When Wing phones her aunt in Taiwan she has to remember the long-distance code, a
country code, an area code, and then the local number. She manages to remember the 15
numbers involved by using
a. short-term memory.
b. consolidation.
c. iconic memory.
d. chunking.
e. the recency effect.
d. chunking.
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Watson proposed that society as a whole could be improved by ____.?
a. ?electing psychologists to political office b. ?enforcing tough crime laws c. ?replacing religion-based ethics with experimental ethics d. ?forming a colony and living a communal life e. ?None of the choices are correct.
______ applies to physiological and emotional responses only.
A. Classical conditioning B. Operant conditioning C. Reinforcement D. Punishment
A blended, or reconstituted, family is one in which
A) divorced parents remarry each other. B) children live with grandparents instead of their parents. C) adopted or foster children live together. D) cohabitation or remarriage results in a parent, a stepparent, and children.
Which statement best describes the level of universality of Lindemann's ideas about grief work?
A. In all cultures, intense expressions of grief are considered appropriate. B. The context of death and its meaning for those who mourn suggests an individualized view of theadaptive process of bereavement is most accurate. C. The loss of a loved one after a long, painful illness always requires intense grief work. D. Counselors agree that after conditions of grave trauma, an early period of intense grieving isimportant for coping with immediate demands.