Depressed patients in one study were asked to recall personal experiences associated with words from a list. The researchers found patients were more likely to recall unhappy experiences when feeling particularly depressed. This finding supports which concept?

Children tend to rely on the literal meaning of an utterance, even when prosody strongly suggest a nonliteral meaning, in what is known as the __________ bias.

a. categorical b. confirmation c. lexical d. literal

Pertaining to the different memory systems, older adults display more difficulties in

__________ memory than younger adults. Fill in the blanks with correct word