In those 75 years of age and older in our society, more females die than males among
a. Caucasian Americans
b. Hispanic Americans
c. African Americans
d. all of these
e. none of these
D
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John Stuart Mill's concept of ____ emancipated associationistic psychology from the strict mental mechanics proposed by James Mill and others.
a. free will b. imagination c. mental chemistry d. utilitarianism
Someone leaves a phone number on your answering machine. You repeat the number to yourself as you start to dial. Then, your mother asks you a question. You answer her and then turn back to the phone to complete your dialing only to realize that you do not remember the last three digits. This illustrates how short-term memory is affected by interruption, or
a. dishabituation. b. priming. c. chunking. d. displacement.
When a control group is used in experimental research, the members of the control group will be treated exactly the same as the
A. treatment group, except that they will be exposed to the independent variable. B. treatment group in every way. C. control group in any other psychology study. D. treatment group, except that they will not be exposed to the independent variable.
The average reader uses _____ to read the vast majority of printed words
A) phonetic decomposition B) whole word recognition C) surface salience D) the representativeness heuristic