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Priming is considered part of implicit memory because it
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occurs without conscious awareness
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Which of the following is a disadvantage of relying on external rewards to motivate behavior?
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There is potential to reduce intrinsic motivation.
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Researchers know that infants' sense of smell is fairly well developed at birth because newborns prefer the smell of
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a nursing pad from their mother to the smell of a pad from another mother
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Amy appears to have an irrational and maladaptive fear of flying. She will not fly to visit her children and grandchildren, and she has even lost a job because she refused to fly to meet clients. Amy would most likely be diagnosed with which of the following anxiety disorders?
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Specific phobia
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Tom fails his math exam. If he explains his failure by using an internal attribution, his reason for failing might be which of the following?
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Tom is not smart or not good at math.
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In order to illustrate how often a particular score occurs in a given data set, researchers use
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a frequency distribution
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