Psych Exam 3 COHN with Accurate
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Which level of processing results in longer-lasting memory codes - ANS--Semantic
(what is the meaning of a word or material)
A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli is called - ANS-Iconic
our tendency to judge the likelihood of an event on the basis of how readily we can
remember - ANS-Availability heuristic
research findings suggest that iconic memory lasts for approximately - ANS-1/2 second
by encouraging people to imagine their home being destroyed by fire insurance agents
are especially successful at selling large homeowners policies the agents are relying on
the impact of - ANS-Representative heuristic
for the early version of the stanford binet test iq was defined as - ANS-mental age
divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100.
words, events, places, and emotions that trigger our memory of the past are called -
ANS-Retrieval cues
chunking refers to - ANS-the organization of information into meaningful units
A mnemonic device is a - ANS-Memory aid
31. A child is shown two identical tall containers half filled with water. The contents of
one tall container are then poured into a short, wide, container. If the child states that
there is more water in the remaining tall container, then the child has not yet developed
the idea of: - ANS-Conservation
The style of parenting where they expect unquestioning obedience - ANS-Authoritarian
The Heinz dilemma was used to by Lawrence Kohlberg to study - ANS-Moral reasoning
Habituation refers to - ANS-A decrease in responding to a repeated presentation of
stimuli
Harry Harlow provided baby monkeys with two artificial mothers: a wire mesh mother
and a terry cloth mother. The wire mesh mother always provided nourishment (milk in a
baby bottle), while the terry cloth mother only provided tactile (touch) comfort. Which
