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show short-term  
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show effortful processing.  
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show the spacing effect.  
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At a block party, Cyndi is introduced to eight new neighbors. Moments later, she remembers only the names of the first three and last two neighbors. Her experience illustrates   show
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Employing the single word HOMES to remember the names of North America's five Great Lakes best illustrates the use of   show
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Memories of emotional events are especially likely to be facilitated by activation of the   show
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show retrieval cues  
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During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates   show
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show rehearsal  
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Jamille performs better on foreign language vocabulary tests if she studies the material 15 minutes every day for 8 days than if she crams for 2 hours the night before the test. This illustrates what is known as   show
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show a recency effect  
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show rehearsal  
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show chunking  
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show motivated forgetting  
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To recall his early life experiences, Aaron formed vivid mental images of the various rooms in his childhood home. Aaron was applying the process of   show
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A measure of your memory in which you need to pick the correctly learned answer from a displayed list of options is known as a measure of   show
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show sensory memory  
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show working memory  
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Automatic processing occurs without   show
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The effortful processing of information   show
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show memory  
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The process of encoding refers to   show
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show retention; acquisition  
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show retrieval failure.  
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show meanings.  
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show factor analysis  
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Managers who want to foster creativity in the workplace should try to increase the ________ of their employees.   show
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show emotional intelligence.  
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The widely used American revision of Alfred Binet's original intelligence test was developed by   show
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show more neural plasticity and faster brain-wave responses to simple stimuli than do those with lower scores.  
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A test designed to assess whether newly graduated medical students should be granted the legal right to practice medicine would most likely be considered a(n) ________ test.   show
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show standardization  
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show reliability.  
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show have content validity  
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Comparing the academic performance of those whose scores are extremely low on intelligence tests with those whose scores are extremely high is an effective way to highlight the tests'   show
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Increasing years of schooling over the last half century have most likely contributed to   show
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show heritability  
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Although diagnosed with autism and hardly able to speak coherently, 18-year-old Andrew can produce intricate and detailed drawings of scenes he has viewed only once. Andrew illustrates a condition known as   show
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show Sternberg's concept of analytical intelligence  
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University students who focus on the interest and challenge of their schoolwork rather than on simply meeting deadlines and securing good grades are especially likely to demonstrate   show
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show France  
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show 9  
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show aptitude  
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Psychologists use ________ to assess individuals' mental aptitudes and compare them with those of others.   show
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show mental ability to learn from experience.  
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L. L. Thurstone identified seven clusters of primary mental abilities, including word fluency, memory, and inductive reasoning. He claimed that word fluency   show
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Howard Gardner identified a total of ________ intelligences.   show
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Generating multiple possible answers to a problem illustrates   show
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show extending the definition of intelligence to an overly broad range of skills  
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show an instinct  
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show incentives  
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A starving rat will lose all interest in food if its ________ is destroyed.   show
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The secretion of PYY _________ hunger and the secretion of orexin ________ hunger.   show
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show bulimia nervosa.  
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show cultural ideals of beauty that increasingly encourage thinness.  
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In a classic experiment, obese patients whose daily caloric intake was dramatically reduced lost only 6 percent of their weight. This limited weight loss was due, at least in part, to the fact that their dietary restriction led to a(n)   show
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show belongingness  
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show flow  
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show 360-degree feedback.  
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show organizational psychology  
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show social leadership  
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show maintain homeostasis.  
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show food deprivation; hunger  
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show hypothalamus  
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The concept of a set point is relevant to understanding the experience of   show
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Lindsey is extremely afraid of becoming obese even though she is underweight. She often checks her body in the mirror for any signs of fat and refuses to eat most foods because she insists they are fatty or high in calories. Lindsey most clearly demonstra   show
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show “Reduce your weight gradually over a period of several months.”  
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show self-esteem  
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Work is most likely to be satisfying for employees if it is associated with   show
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show industrial-organizational psychology.  
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show celebrate employee productivity by providing them with recognition and rewards.  
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show a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior toward a goal.  
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show instinct  
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show instinct  
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The basic components of emotion are   show
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Who suggested that “we feel sorry because we cry . . . afraid because we tremble”?   show
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The James-Lange theory of emotion states that   show
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Cassandra's mother told her, “You know you are in love when your heart beats fast and you experience that unique trembling feeling inside.” This remark best illustrates the ________ theory of emotion   show
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According to the Cannon-Bard theory, the body's arousal is related to the sympathetic nervous system in the same way that subjective awareness of emotion is related to the   show
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The two-factor theory of emotion was proposed by   show
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According to the two-factor theory, the two basic components of emotions are ________ and ________.   show
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show the James-Lange theory  
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show respiration  
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The instantaneous and automatic fear response we experience when unexpectedly stumbling upon a snake illustrates the importance of the   show
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show eyes; mouth  
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show epinephrine  
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Type A personality is to Type B personality as ________ is to _______.   show
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show emotion-focused coping.  
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The most universally understood way of expressing emotion is through   show
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If people wrinkle their noses in disgust when presented with a strange-looking food, they are likely to experience an increasingly intense emotional aversion to the food. This best illustrates the   show
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show resistance  
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People tend to use emotion-focused rather than problem-focused coping strategies when they   show
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show increases; increases  
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Who is the best example of a Type A personality?   show
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The parasympathetic nervous system is to the sympathetic nervous system as ________ is to ________.   show
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Test performance is typically ________ when physiological arousal is ________.   show
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Thaddeus will play a violin solo at his school tomorrow. His musical performance is likely to be ________ if his physiological arousal during the performance is ________.   show
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The text defines stress as   show
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show body's response to prolonged stress.  
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