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In teaching their child how to walk, parents might make use of ________, in which the parents praise and reward the child for trying to stand up, and then maintaining their balance, and then taking a step, until they have achieved the desired goal of taking several steps unassisted.

Our eyes have ________ kind(s) of cone(s) specialized for color vision.

What is an example of recognition memory?

If a child watches their parent accidentally touch a hot stove, they will probably learn to be careful around the kitchen to avoid getting burned themselves. How is this knowledge acquired?

Parents passing down family traditions to their children over the course of generations is a form of ________ transmission.

Sometimes, shallow encoding can result in better memory than deep encoding. When is this the case?

What is an example of an implicit memory?

We modify voluntary behaviors according to the consequences that follow from them as a result of

If someone is trying to remember as many digits of the number pi as possible, what might you recommend to them to increase their memory capacity for this infinite number?

In Albert Bandura’s Bobo doll study, how did the children respond after witnessing an adult behave aggressively?