Jamal was confused by his sister's relationship with her boyfriend. They just didn't seem to have anything in common. "Oh well," Jamal figured, "I guess opposites really do attract." Jamal's explanation is an example of

The in-depth section of Chapter 11 examines the effect of stereotype threat on problem solving. Which of the following students provides the most accurate information about an important mechanism for stereotype threat?

a. Kirsten: "When people are in a threatening situation, they try to act in a counter-stereotypical fashion." b. Liam: "Stereotype threat seems to reduce the capacity of working memory." c. Treena: "Stereotype threat seems to increase the use of the hill-climbing heuristic." d. Scott: "Stereotype threat seems to change problem-solving strategies, so that people are more likely to attend to the structural similarities of problems."

Joe is a long-term alcoholic who has great difficulty storing new information in memory. What brain structure has likely sustained damage?

a. prefrontal cortex c. hippocampus b. auditory cortex d. none of these