Your longtime friend asks you several questions about a
former classmate that you "bumped into" while on vacation. Although you talked to this old classmate for over an hour and know that she told you the name of the town in which she and her family are now living, you can't seem to retrieve the name of the town at this moment in time. This is an example of when a memory is
a. procedural rather than semantic.
b. temporary rather than permanent.
c. short-term but not long-term.
d. available but not accessible.
ANSWER: d
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_____ attempts to explain how the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others influences the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals
a) Social psychology b) Behavioral psychology c) Cognitive psychology d) Community psychology
When Ming sprained his ankle in a backyard softball game, his girlfriend grabbed a bag of frozen corn from the freezer to wrap around his ankle until they got him to the local clinic. In this case, Ming's girlfriend:
a. showed high levels of functional fixedness b. was able to overcome functional fixedness c. demonstrated effective use of the availability heuristic d. relied on anchoring and adjustment