Dr. Zhang notices that his client, Mariel, becomes very defensive when asked to elaborate on her financial difficulties. Dr. Zhang infers that Mariel has likely been defensive with her parents and supervisors at work as well. What technique is Dr. Zhang using to make his inference?

A set of N = 8 scores has a mean of µ = 11 . If 16 points are added to one of the scores, what is the new value for the population mean?

a. 10 c. 12 b. 11 d. 13

Mr. Dixon is filling in a credit application that requires him to list all his addresses and phone numbers for the past seven years. He is having trouble because he has moved four times in the past seven years, and he can't seem to recall the correct information for each place he has lived. Based on what is known about memory failures, you should conclude that Mr. Dixon's problem results from:

a. proactive interference b. transfer-appropriate processing c. state-dependent forgetting d. retroactive interference