The primacy effect is a result of

Four days ago, based on a weather forecast indicating a 30% chance of snow, Pedro brought his snow boots to work. Yesterday, with a new forecast suggesting a 70% chance of no snow, Pedro decided to leave his snow boots at home. Pedro’s decision-making process regarding his snow boots illustrates which psychological concept?

When we categorize items, not all members have the same features. Many birds lay eggs and fly. Penguins do not fly, yet we still group them with birds. This is a problem for which approach to categorization?

In an experiment, participants were placed in an office and after leaving, were asked to recall the objects they saw in the room. They ‘remembered’ some objects, like books, that were not present. This illustrates the impact of _____ on memory. 

State-dependent learning is demonstrated by which of the following? 

Choose the option that is the best example of a semantic memory

Ms. Robinson recently suffered a stroke. An MRI scan revealed that she suffered damage in her parietal lobe. Ms. Robinson is most likely to have problems with which perceptual function?

The recency effect is a memory bias that occurs when participants are asked to remember a list of items (e.g., words). A method that eliminates the recency effect is to

Two of Melissa’s best friends recently lost their jobs. Because of this, she greatly overestimated the unemployment rate. This illustrates the consequences of

In a classic series of studies, C. Cherry studied attention with a task in which a participants must listen to two messages. Each of the two messages was presented to one ear. Using this task, Cherry found that