When you read the word "slice" on a list, you think of it as something you do to a golf ball. Later when someone asks you which word on the list means the same thing as "piece," you cannot remember. Why?

A) proactive interference
B) encoding specificity principle
C) depth-of-processing principle
D) state-dependent memory

As a business manager,Julie often calls her employees' attention to their occasional mistakes while withholding praise for their many accomplishments. Julie fails to take full advantage of a basic principle of

A) 360-degree feedback.
B) operant conditioning.
C) task leadership.
D) unstructured interviews.

Mirror neurons are:

A) missing in individuals with a damaged fusiform face area.
B) activated both when one performs an action oneself and when one simply observes another person perform that action.
C) activated whenever the individual encounters an image of himself or herself.
D) second genetic copies of each neuron in the brain.

Mental shortcuts used automatically for making decisions are called:

A) impressions.
B) somatic markers.
C) heuristics.
D) experiential associations.

Jonah's friend,Julio,is late for their tee time at the golf course.Jonah thinks Julio is late because he is inconsiderate and selfish,when in fact he was late because the battery in his car died.Jonah has just committed

A) cognitive dissonance.
B) an attitude.
C) the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.
D) the fundamental attribution error.

Different accounts of the same behavior that together give us a more complete understanding represent different

A) cognitive functions.
B) unconscious motives.
C) levels of analysis.
D) natural selections.