Your memory for the moment you heard about the planes crashing into the World Trade Towers in New York would be most appropriately termed a(n) ________ memory

In a well-known study conducted by Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968), schoolteachers were told that certain of their students—who were in fact chosen by the researchers at random—were "intellectual bloomers" and had tremendous academic potential. When these students were tested at the end of the year, it was found that their IQ scores had indeed significantly increased (presumably as a result of

the special attention and treatment they had received from their teachers). This research most clearly demonstrates ____. a. the self-serving bias b. the discontinuity effect c. scapegoating d. the self-fulfilling prophecy

In the context of age-related changes in men and women, which of the following statements is accurate?

A) Hearing ability tends to decline more gradually in women than in men. B) Men are more likely than women to die from liver cirrhosis and strokes. C) Heart disease typically develops later in life in men than in women. D) Arthritis is more common in men than women among African Americans.