QUESTION 9
Which of these is a good example of retroactive interference?
You learned Italian in high school and Spanish in college, but speak Spanish by mistake when you go to Italy.
You're unable to type in your PIN number correctly because the keys on the keypad are arranged in an unconventional way.
You mistakenly recall that Los Angeles is the capital of California.
You learned Italian in high school and Spanish in college, but speak Italian by mistake when you go to Spain.
While driving in England, you forget that the English drive on the left-hand side of the road.
QUESTION 10
Which of these led up to behaviorism (founded by John Watson)?
The fact that behaviorists wanted to better understand what behavior tells us about the mind
Chomsky's observation that children say things they have never even heard before, and that they have never been rewarded for saying
The fact that the study of psychology by analytic introspection produced unreliable results
The realization that methods such as classical conditioning were not considered to be scientific
QUESTION 11
Lexical ambiguity
is caused by "garden path" sentences.
occurs when a sequence of words is consistent with several possible grammatical structures.
occurs when a word like "bank" or "bugs" has several distinct senses or meanings.
is always temporary (resolved by the end of the sentence).
is rare.
