Question 1

Which of the following represents the correct order of Piaget\'s stages of cognitive development?

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sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

Question 2

A subliminal message is one that

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cannot be detected 50 percent of the time.   can affect you under certain conditions.   is below your absolute threshold.  * is all of these things.

Question 3

Carmella, Jorge, and Gail were all sitting behind the same bowling lane, so Ruth perceived that they were all members of the same bowling team. This best illustrates the organizational principle of

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proximity.

Question 4

Patients who have negative expectations about the outcome of a surgical procedure may experience increased postoperative pain. This best illustrates the importance of

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top-down processing.

Question 5

Sensory adaptation refers to

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diminished sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus.

Question 6

Stereotypes are mental conceptions that can strongly influence the way we interpret the behaviors of individuals belonging to specific racial or ethnic groups. A stereotype is most similar to a

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perceptual set.

Question 7

The feature detectors identified by Hubel and Weisel consist of

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nerve cells in the brain.

Question 8

The process by which our sensory systems transform stimulus energies into neural impulses is called

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transduction.

Question 9

Dean overestimates the proportion of family chores for which he takes sole responsibility because it\'s easier for him to recall what he has done than to recall what other family members have done. This best illustrates the impact of

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the availability heuristic.

Question 10

Howard Gardner identified a total of ________ relatively independent intelligences.

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eight

Question 11

A full week after Usha hears her mother read her a list of 12 different farm animals, Usha is most likely to remember the animals ________ of the list.

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at the beginning

Question 12

Damage to the hippocampus would most likely interfere with a person\'s ability to learn

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the names of newly introduced people.

Question 13

Effortful processing most clearly requires

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working memory.

Question 14

Hermann Ebbinghaus discovered that the rate at which we forget newly learned information is initially

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rapid and subsequently slows down.

Question 15

Instead of simply repeating a series of numbers he wants to remember, David mentally associates the numbers with meaningful dates such as his friends\' birthdays. This best illustrates

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deep processing.

Question 16

In the study led by Elizabeth Loftus, two groups of observers were asked how fast two cars had been going in a filmed traffic accident. Observers who heard the vividly descriptive word \"smashed\" in relation to the accident later recalled

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broken glass at the scene of the accident

Question 17

Joshua vividly recalls his feelings and what he was doing at the exact moment when he heard of his grandfather\'s unexpected death. This best illustrates ________ memory

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flashbulb

Question 18

Karl and Dee had a joyful wedding ceremony. After their painful divorce, however, they began to remember the wedding as a somewhat hectic and unpleasant event. Their recollections

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memory construction.

Question 19

Long-term potentiation is believed to be

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a neural basis for learning and memory.

Question 20

Recall of what you have learned is often improved when your physical surroundings at the time of retrieval and encoding are the same. This best illustrates

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context-dependent memory.

Question 21

Remembering how to solve a puzzle without any conscious recollection that you can do so best illustrates ________ memory.

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implicit

Question 22

Stress hormones provoke the ________ to initiate a memory trace in the frontal lobes and basal ganglia

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amygdala

Question 23

Students who study throughout the term and then restudy course material at the end of a semester to pass a comprehensive final are especially likely to demonstrate long-term retention of the course material. This best illustrates

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the spacing effect.

Question 24

The address for obtaining tickets to a popular quiz show flashes on the TV screen, but the image disappears before Sergei has had a chance to write down the complete address. To his surprise, however, he has retained a momentary mental image of the five-digit zip code. His experience best illustrates ________ memory

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iconic

Question 25

Tim, a third-grader, learns the sentence \"George Eats Old Gray Rats and Paints Houses Yellow\" to help him remember the spelling of \"geography.\" Tim is using

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a mnemonic technique.

Question 26

When 80-year-old Ida looked at one of her old wedding pictures, she was flooded with vivid memories of her parents, her husband, and the early years of her marriage. The picture served as a powerful

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retrieval cue.

Question 27

When children are interviewed about their recollections of possible sexual abuse, their reports are especially credible if

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involved adults have not discussed the issue with them prior to the interview

Question 28

Which of the following questions would best enable you to remember that you saw the word PEACH on today\'s test?

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Is the word a type of fruit?

Question 29

You are most likely to automatically encode information about

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the sequence of your day\'s events.

Question 30

The integration of new incoming information with knowledge retrieved from long-term memory involves the activity of

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working memory.

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