Studies comparing reactions to "possible" and "impossible" events are used primarily to:

a. discover what infants know based on what they find surprising
b. discover whether infants are ready to learn a new concept
c. discover whether infants demonstrate visual egocentrism
d. discover whether infants have better memories for events that they understand

Ans: a. discover what infants know based on what they find surprising

Psychology

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Herman remembers exactly what he was doing and where he was when he first heard about the September 11th terrorist attacks. Brown and Kulik (1977) would refer to this vivid image as

a. the hindsight bias. b. a memory heuristic. c. memory inflation. d. a flashbulb memory.

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