You read a list of terms including blind date. Later someone asks you which word on the list was the name of a fruit, and you fail to think of date. Why?

a. Representativeness heuristic
b. Law of effect
c. Proactive interference
d. Encoding specificity

d

Psychology

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A) descriptive norm B) bad habit C) affordance D) injunctive norm

Psychology

If the left hemisphere of the brain were damaged, which part of the body would be MOST directly affected?

a. the left half b. the right half c. the upper portion d. the entire body

Psychology