Your Nephew Is Fascinated with Human Memory and the Strategies

question 110

Multiple Choice

Your nephew is fascinated with human memory and the strategies that help people remember large amounts of information.If he were to become a psychologist,you suspect that he would be best suited for a career in

• A) industrial/organizational psychology.
• B) cognitive psychology or neuroscience.
• C) developmental psychology.
• D) clinical psychology.

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Definitions:

Threatening

Describes a behavior or communication that implies harm or negative consequences, often used to intimidate or coerce.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in behavioural psychology where the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that pairs a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that naturally produces a behavior, eventually causing the neutral stimulus to elicit that behavior on its own.

Reinforced Behaviors

Behaviors that are more likely to be repeated in the future due to the application of a positive or negative reinforcement after the behavior is exhibited.