Exam 20: Insight, Language, and Memory: Exploring Cognitive Processe

When Vanessa noticed that she was wearing mismatched socks, she overestimated the extent to which others would also notice. Her reaction best illustrates

If you get violently ill a couple of hours after eating contaminated food, you will probably developa. aversion to the taste of that food but not to the sight of the restaurant where you ate or to the sound of music you heard there. This best illustrates that associative learning is constrained by

Evolutionary psychologists attribute the human tendency to fear snakes and heights to

Mentally rehearsing the glossary definitions of unfamiliar terms in order to remember them for a later test illustrates

After suffering an accidental brain injury, Kira has difficulty walking in a smooth and coordinated manner. She has probably suffered damage to her

The most effective psychotherapists are those who

Max is so used to thinking that a tough competitive style of behavior is the best way to impress others that he fails to recognize that the most effective way to impress his girlfriend is with cooperative tenderness. Max's oversight best illustrates

Deficient social interaction and an impaired understanding of others' emotional states is most characteristic of

Prototypes are especially important in the process of trial and error.

The hostilities between two racial subgroups of a riverfront community were dramatically reduced when the threat of their river flooding its banks required that they work together to save their town. This best illustrates the impact of

Which of the following processes typically takes place shortly after people complete their participation in a research study?

For professional baseball players, swinginga. a pitched ball is reinforced with a home run on a ________ schedule.

The Moon illusion refers to our tendency to perceive the Moon as unusually

In teaching her son to play basketball, Mrs. Richards initially reinforces him with praise for simply dribbling while standing still, then only for walking while dribbling, and finally only for running while dribbling. She is using a procedure known as

The neural activation theory provides a physiological explanation for

The central focal point in the retina where cones are heavily concentrated is known as the

Infants' tendency to gaze longer at novel stimuli than at familiar ones provides compelling evidence regarding their

Every twenty-fifth person who subscribed to a weekly news magazine was contacted by market researchers to complete a survey of opinions regarding the magazine's contents. The researchers were applying the technique known as

Which of the following is central to the processing of procedural memories?

The opponent-process theory is most useful for explaining a characteristic of