Dweck and Colleagues (1993) Suggest That Some People Are _____

question 26

Multiple Choice

Dweck and colleagues (1993) suggest that some people are _____ theorists and view themselves and others as acting on the basis of fixed traits, and other people are _____ theorists and view themselves and others as acting on basis of malleable traits.

• A) environmental; hereditary
• B) entity; incremental
• C) internal; external
• D) incremental; global

Identify factors that influence memory reliability, including the role of suggestion in eyewitness testimony and recovered memories.

Differentiate between various theories related to information processing and sensory filtering.

Describe the processes involved in memory storage, including chunking and the use of mnemonics.

Understand the role of the amygdala in memory and the neural basis of memory.

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Definitions:

Chebysheff's Theorem

A theorem that provides a minimum proportion of observations that lie within a specified number of standard deviations from the mean, applicable to all distributions.

Standard Deviations

A measure that indicates the amount of variation or dispersion from the average in a set of data.

Geometric Mean

The nth root of the product of n numbers, used especially for sets of positive numbers.

Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean.