What Does the Author of Your Textbook Mean When She

question 30

Multiple Choice

What does the author of your textbook mean when she writes,"we don't live in a main effect world"?

• A)She means that psychologists do not like to examine main effects.
• B)She means that main effects are not important.
• C)She means that interactions are common in everyday life.
• D)She means that studies that produce interactions are the only studies worth conducting.

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Definitions:

Atkinson-Shiffrin

A model of memory proposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin in 1968 that describes memory in terms of three stores; sensory, short-term, and long-term memory.

Connectionism

An approach in cognitive science that models mental or behavioral phenomena as the emergent processes of interconnected networks of simple units.

Neural Networks

Computational models inspired by the human brain's structure, designed to recognize patterns and solve problems.

Working Memory

A cognitive system responsible for temporarily holding information available for processing and problem-solving tasks.