When Max's father installed a new ceiling fan in his room, the "whirring" sound initially disturbed Max's sleep. After a few nights, however, Max was back to sleeping normally, as if the fan did not bother him at all. Max's filtering out of the fan's noise is best described as ____

One reason that the visuospatial sketchpad is more challenging to study than the phonological loop is that

a. it's difficult to find ecologically valid situations in which the visuospatial sketchpad is relevant. b. participants are more likely to guess the correct answer, compared to studies that focus on the phonological loop. c. participants may spontaneously provide a verbal label for a shape, so the task may actually use the phonological loop. d. visual information must be presented more slowly than phonological information.

________ analysis is a statistical method for analyzing the intercorrelations among various measures or test scores. It can be used to identify clusters of correlated items that are assumed to measure the same underlying trait, ability, or aptitude

a. Psychometric b. Factor c. Behavioral d. Intelligence quotient