Studies of visual perception indicate that infants under six months
a. pay more attention to simple patterns rather than complex ones.
b. pay more attention to a person who is gazing directly at them, rather than one who is looking away.
c. prefer to look at colored ovals rather than human faces.
d. show all of these preferences.
ANSWER: b
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a. damage to the amygdala impairs semantic but not episodic memory. b. anoxia facilitates episodic memory but not semantic memory. c. anoxia facilitates semantic memory but not episodic memory. d. persons with semantic dementia show loss of the lateral temporal lobe but not the hippocampal formation. e. hippocampal subjects had poor vocabulary skills but good recall of their daily conversations.
The Morris water maze can be viewed as a test of ________ when the rats are _______
a. semantic learning; released from the same point in the maze on each trial b. relational learning; released from the same point in the maze on each trial c. relational learning; released from a different point of the maze on each trial d. nonrelational learning; released from a different point of the maze on each trial e. perceptual memory; placed directly onto the platform