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Extreme sleep loss can be fatal. 

Mental process that removes unacceptable thoughts and memories from consciousness and keeps them the unconscious.    For example, a veteran goes through a traumatic experience during the war and while in therapy, the psychologist notices that this memory has been “blacked out” for the veteran. He can not recall the day of the incident at all (likely because it was so traumatic and uncomfortable).    What is responsible for this? 

Parents assign difficult new chores after teen is stopped for speeding in his new car. What is this an example of? 

Inability to retrieve old information (What happened prior to a car accident)

Tendency to reconstruct the past to fit the present. For example, someone might believe they’ve always been a health-conscious person, even if they previously ate mostly junk food. 

If you’re trying to study for a test, which is the MOST effective way to learn the material, according to research? 

You go to trivia and they ask you to write the year that the movie Frozen came out. To remember this, you are using: 

What did the Little Albert experiment demonstrate? 

A kid misses an important goal at the end of his soccer game and is visibly upset. His parent tries to cheer him up by saying, “Just don’t think about it, it’ll be fine.”  You as a psychologist congratulate the parent on an effective pep talk. From what we know about the process of thought suppression, it is likely that this child will now start to relax. 

Albert Bandura studied aggressive observational learning using the Bobo doll experiment. He found that children who observed adults being aggressive toward the Bobo doll, ___________________________.