Olivia is a college student. She can remember her first day of kindergarten and getting a puppy when she was 5. Olivia can't really remember anything that happened before she was 4. This is an example of
A) infantile amnesia.
B) synaptic pruning.
C) experience-expectant development.
D) experience-dependent development.
A) infantile amnesia. Infantile amnesia is the inability to remember things and events occurring before the age of 3 or 4.
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You typically fail to consciously perceive that your own nose is your line of vision. This best illustrates
A) sensory deprivation. B) selective attention. C) the phi phenomenon. D) convergence. E) visual capture.
While watching TV, you see a commercial for a new drug, Curolex, which cures 93% of cancer patients. But when you check Curolex out on Google Scholar, you can't find any research on its effectiveness. You are surprised by this because Curolex seems to be too good to be true, and the lack of convincing evidence makes you suspicious. When thinking about Curolex, you have used which of the six principles of scientific thinking?
a. Occam's razor b. Extraordinary claims c. Replicability d. Falsifiability