The "general mechanism approach" to speech perception argues that
a. we first obtain a general idea about a spoken message, and then we fill in the specific details.
b. we use similar processes for both speech perception and other auditory perception tasks.
c. learning does not play a major role in speech perception.
d. children are born with a general understanding about speech, and they fill in specific information as they grow older.
Ans: b
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Regarding short-term memory (STM), which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Although information can be stored phonetically in STM, it is most often stored in images. b. In memory experiments, information in short-term memory is gone in 12 to 18 seconds without rehearsal. c. It is very difficult to do more than one task at a time in STM. d. STM is very sensitive to interruption, or displacement.
The study by Balcetis and Dunning (2006) in which participants thought that they were taking part in a taste-testing experiment showed that people
a. tend to see what they want to see. b. prefer orange juice to greenish drink. c. have perceptions that are objective analyses of the facts. d. are unlikely to make self-serving attributions.