Dallas is an ex-football player who now hosts his own sports talk show. He spends most of his time predicting who will win the game on Sunday. Which of the following abilities would be most useful to Dallas?

One of the most widely cited articles in psychology is George Miller's (1956) article on the size of short-term memory. According to your text, this article was important in cognitive psychology because

a. it clearly established the rigid limits of short-term memory's size. b. it demonstrated that short-term memory was distinctly different from long-term memory. c. it focused on a cognitive processâ€"mentally converting the stimulusâ€"at a time when most psychologists focused on people's external behavior. d. it showed that the key to the limits of short-term memory was the amount of time required to pronounce the stimuli.

Twenty-eight-year-old Tut was married to his wife Nefertiti for four years before her untimely death. It is now three years later. If Tut is grieving in a typical manner, you would expect him to a. show few lingering signs of grief

b. still be grieving at the level he was just after his wife died. c. be happily married to someone else. d. have entered a state of depression.