Stephanie just broke up with her boyfriend, Paul, when Scott asks her to the homecoming dance. At the dance that night, Stephanie and Scott have a wonderful time. When Scott walks Stephanie to the door he is dismayed when she kisses him goodnight and calls him Paul. Stephanie has just illustrated:

A. proactive interference

B. mood-congruent memory

C. the forgetting curve

D. retroactive interference

A. proactive interference

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According to the text, which of the following best describes the relationship between aggression and television violence?

Researchers have shown that watching aggression on television causes aggressive behaviors. || There has been no research on how watching aggression on television relates to aggressive behaviors. || The research is indecisive because there are too many confounding, conflicting, and extraneous variables. || Research has shown that watching aggression on television is only slightly correlated with aggressive behaviors. || || ||

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All of the following are true statements about pharmacological interventions for

eating disorders except: a. There is little systematic research on the effectiveness of medication in the treatment of anorexia. b. Pharmacological interventions are relatively ineffective at treating the core symptoms of eating disorders. c. One study found that weight changes, depressive symptoms, and attitudes about weight and body shape were equivalent in a group of women with anorexia who were given Prozac and a group who were given a placebo. d. Tricyclic antidepressants may be effective to treat bulimia, but there is little evidence that they are effective to treat anorexia. e. The addition of SSRIs to cognitive behavioral therapy for bulimia has been found to boost the effectiveness of that treatment.

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