__________, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, revised the Binet-Simon scale so it could be used with American school children

Suppose that you hear another student turning a page of this exam. The representation of that noise by the receptors in your auditory system is called

a. iconic memory. b. an illusory contour. c. the proximal stimulus. d. the distal stimulus.

Part of the section on metamemory examined how students regulate their study strategies. If you are typical of the college students discussed in that section—and the task is relatively easy—you would be likely to

a. spend somewhat more time on the more difficult material, but not as much time as it deserves. b. fail to review the material you already know. c. show no relationship between study time and the difficulty of the material. d. spend roughly three times as long on difficult topics as on the topics you already know.