A man known as H. M. lost the ability to form new memories after an operation removed portions of his __________.

Ashley and Mary-Kate are twins who are genetically identical. What type of twins are they?

While watching the evening news, you see a story about domestic abuse and wonder, “Why would anyone stay in a relationship where they are being abused?” According to Seligman, one factor that may contribute to victims staying in abusive relationships is __________.

Retroactive interference, as used in the study of memory, refers to __________.

Ebbinghaus found that information is forgotten __________.

The person most closely associated with research on learned helplessness is __________.

If a child successfully navigates the __________ stage of psychosocial development, he or she will make decisions and act independently.

An unpleasant stimulus presented to a person or animal that decreases the probability of a particular response is known as __________.

If __________ amnesia is like losing a document in the computer because of a power loss, __________ amnesia is like pushing the “save” key and having the document disappear instead of being stored.

An advantage of using a heuristic over an algorithm is that a heuristic __________.