The first stage of memory information processing where we transform sensory input into psychological formats that can be represented mentally is referred to as __________.

People with__________stop breathing periodically, up to several hundred times per night.

Which of the following statements is true about explicit memory?

_____ specialize in basic processes such as the nervous system, sensation and perception, learning and memory, thought, motivation, and emotion.

Prejudices act as cognitive filters through which people view the social world. People tend to think of people as “familiar” or “foreign,” or “good” or “bad.” Their feelings and reactions toward others may be biased by these perceptions. This source of prejudice is referred to as _____.

Which of the following best defines the term latent learning?

__________is best defined as a sudden variation in an inheritable characteristic, as distinguished from a variation that results from generations of gradual selection.

__________is the inability to recall events that occur prior to the age of three or so.

According to cognitive theorists, _____ is the process by which organisms make relatively permanent changes in the way they represent the environment because of experience.

Which of the following is true about the serial-position effect?