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You need to remove a broken light bulb from a lamp. Without a pair of gloves, you are likely to cut yourself on the jagged glass. Suddenly, it occurs to you that you can use a cut potato to remove the light bulb from the socket. You have just demonstrated __________.

Little Jonas is learning to speak, and it is clear to his parents that he understands far more words than he can say. Psychologists refer to this as a receptive-__________ lag.

When given a list of items to remember, people tend to have better recall of the first items on the list than items on the middle of the list. This is known as the __________.

The __________ appears to be responsible for the storage of new long-term memories. If it is removed, the ability to store anything new is completely lost.

Fraternal twins are __________ similar genetically than are regular, non-twin siblings.

Forgetting in long-term memory is most likely due to __________.

In problem solving, the term rule of thumb refers to __________.

In order to get her third-grade students to memorize the poem written on the chalkboard, Mrs. Flores gives the students stickers for each poem they can recite from memory. After earning five stickers, a student gets to pick a prize out of the goody box. Mrs. Flores is using a(n) __________ to modify the children’s behaviors.

According to Cattell and Horn, the two types of intelligence that people possess are __________ and __________ intelligence.

Short-term memories appear to be stored in the __________.