Chapter 10 pointed out that people who are working on a writing assignment are operating on a "full-time cognitive overload." This phrase suggests that
a. people need to write down phrases as soon as they are created, to reduce this overload problem.
b. decision making is a central component of writing, so that writers can reject ideas that are not productive.
c. it's important to transfer ideas from working memory to long-term memory, prior to writing them down.
d. writers typically use all the components of working memory, as well as long-term memory.
Ans: d
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In an attempt to learn something about his conscious experience, William looked at an abstract painting and wrote down all of his impressions as they came to him. This technique is called
a. introspection. b. retrospection. c. empiricism. d. psychoanalysis.
When researchers find that the results of their studies could have occurred by chance only five or fewer times in 100 possible outcomes, they conclude that the results
a. are statistically significant. b. reflect an interaction between the dependent variables. c. are theoretically meaningful. d. are null because of their low level of reliability.