Sensory adaptation spares us from having to respond to unimportant sensory information

Denise is having difficulty recalling the difference between proactive interference and retroactive interference. Her instructor suggests that if she thinks of "an old pro interfering with a new recruit"

she will recall that proactive interference involves old information interfering with new information. This advice makes use of a) grouping. b) mental imagery. c) the method of loci. d) the pegword method.

In one classic experiment, rats were given meals of

chocolate chip cookies, salami, cheese, bananas, marshmallows, milk chocolate, peanut butter, and fat. The rats a. lost weight because of the nutritional imbalance in the foods provided. b. overate, gaining about three times as much weight as rats fed laboratory rat chow. c. did not gain or lose weight, since sweetness and fat content only encourage humans to overeat. d. chose to eat only the salami, cheese, and bananas.