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The word-length effect reveals that

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?

Anna is blonde, very physically attractive, and lives in an expensive house. If we judge the probability of Anna’s being a model as quite high because she resembles our stereotype of a model, we are using the heuristic of:

When comparing functional MRI (fMRI) and event-related potential (ERP) recordings, fMRI has:

John Mill suffered a traumatic brain injury that specifically impaired his episodic memory. Which option describes the task that will be most challenging for him?

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 

We are aware of _____ memories.

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

George Sperling used the so called partial-report procedure to study memory. In these experiments Sperling found evidence that

Imagine that a person is asked to look at various photographs (scenes), one by one, on a computer screen. A bottom-up process is involved if the person fixates on an area of the picture that