Formula sheets, the key method steps for every topic and 8 practice problems, with full solutions at the back.
The serial position effect predicts that items in a list are recalled best when they are:
Readers stumble on "The horse raced past the barn fell" before understanding it. What does this show about sentence processing?
Baillargeon found that young infants looked longer at "impossible" events, such as a screen rotating through a box behind it. This suggests infants:
Parents who love reading pass on genes linked to verbal ability and also fill the house with books. This is which gene–environment correlation?
The self-serving bias is the tendency to:
In Tajfel's minimal group studies, boys allocated points between an in-group and an out-group member. They often preferred options that:
Clozapine is typically reserved for treatment-resistant schizophrenia because:
Expressed emotion research shows that relapse in schizophrenia is more likely when families show:
Answer: C · At the beginning and end of the list
Early items benefit from rehearsal into long-term memory (primacy), and the last items are still in short-term memory (recency).
Answer: C · People build an interpretation word by word and must revise it when it fails
Readers commit early to "raced" as the main verb. "Fell" forces reanalysis to "the horse (that was) raced past the barn fell", showing incremental parsing.
Answer: B · Know hidden objects still exist earlier than Piaget thought
Longer looking at impossible events implies surprise, which suggests infants expected the hidden box to remain solid. This points to object permanence by a few months of age.
Answer: C · Passive
In passive correlations, biological parents provide both genes and an environment that fits them. This is strongest in early childhood.
Answer: A · Attribute successes to ourselves and failures to external factors
The self-serving bias protects self-esteem by taking credit for success and blaming circumstances for failure.
Answer: A · Maximised the gap in their group's favour, even at a cost
Boys chose to give their group more than the other group even if it meant less for their own group overall, suggesting that positive distinctiveness drives favouritism.
Answer: A · It can cause agranulocytosis, so regular blood monitoring is required
Clozapine is effective when other antipsychotics fail, but it can cause a dangerous fall in neutrophils, so patients need regular blood tests.
Answer: C · High criticism, hostility and emotional over-involvement
High expressed emotion predicts higher relapse rates; family interventions that reduce it lower relapse.
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