You have gone for the first time to one of the campus computer
labs to work on your psychology assignments. However, you forgot your first-day handout, which has the psychology website listed. You spot a person from your class, and he tells you the website. You walk back to your computer and type in the website. In the process of working through the assignment, you accidentally exit completely out of the system. You cannot remember the psychology website. This illustrates how which of the following types of memory operates?
a. sensory memory
b. iconic memory
c. short-term memory
d. procedural memory
ANSWER: c
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a. true b. false
Which of the following was the major reason for the formation of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)?
a. Psychotherapists were losing their "human touch" by relying too much on psychology's empirical findings. b. Academic-research psychologists were unschooled in current therapeutic methods of psychology. c. There were many differences in training and attitudes between scientists and many therapists. d. Clinical psychologists wanted to be able to prescribe drugs.