Absentminded behavior is most likely to occur
a. when you are performing a very important behavior.
b. when you are performing a source-monitoring task.
c. when you are performing a routine activity, but you are thinking about the separate steps involved in the action.
d. when a prospective-memory task requires you to interrupt a routine activity.
Ans: d
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Dr. Heyman made which of the following points concerning social referencing?
a. Babies who are social referencing respond more to facial expressions than to voice tone of caregivers. b. Babies who are social referencing respond more to voice tone than to facial expressions of caregivers. c. Babies who are social referencing respond more to the positive emotions expressed by caregivers than the negative emotions. d. Babies who are social referencing respond more to the negative emotions expressed by caregivers than the positive emotions.
In a longitudinal study that followed a sample of American children from age 4 to 11, TV watching predicted gains in body fat. The study found that these were ____
a. positively correlated—as TV consumption increased, body fat increased b. negatively correlated—as TV consumption increased, body fat decreased c. uncorrelated—there is no relationship between TV consumption and body fat d. neutrally correlated—as TV consumption increased, body fat remained the same