As Human Beings,we Encounter a Great Many Stimuli at Any

question 94

Multiple Choice

As human beings,we encounter a great many stimuli at any one time. Which one of the following alternatives most accurately reflects educational psychologists' perspective about how we respond to all these stimuli?

• A)By learning to use effective long-term memory storage processes,we can eventually begin to remember almost everything we encounter.
• B)We must select the things we think are most important to learn and remember,and ignore the rest.
• C)We remember virtually everything we experience,but we have trouble retrieving most of it.
• D)We cannot remember everything,and we have little control over the things that we do remember.

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Definitions:

UCS

An abbreviation for Unconditioned Stimulus, a stimulus in classical conditioning that automatically triggers a response without any prior learning.

Determinism

The philosophical concept that all events, including moral choices, are determined completely by previously existing causes.

Structuralism

a method of interpretation and analysis in psychology, linguistics, and anthropology that views elements of human culture in terms of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or structure.

Pantheism

The belief or doctrine that God is identical with the universe, or that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God.