41) During lecture each day, a psychology professor may explain four main points he or she wishes the class to retain. However, most students do not think about the material again until the following class period two days later. The forgetting that occurs between classes is most likely the result of a. bias. b. interference. c. decay. d. suggestibility. 42) Schemas can help us navigate a complex world. Yet our schemas are not always correct. This best illustrates which of the following themes from your textbook? a. Our intuitions are usually correct, but can occasionally deceive us. b. Contrary to popular belief, our memories are very poor. c. Adaptive processes of simplification can sometimes be maladaptive. d. Our intuitions can help protect us against scientific error. 43) In answering this, and all other questions for this exam, you are making use of a. priming. b. encoding. c. storage. d. retrieval. 44) Eyewitness testimony has been found to be most accurate when a. a weapon is used in the commission of a crime. b. the witness is distracted or must fill in gaps in their memory with stereotyped information. c. the witness is presented a simultaneous, as opposed to a sequential, line-up. d. the witness has ample time to observe the person under good viewing conditions. 45) Language is a. a communication system that includes words, but not gestures. b. rarely ambiguous. c. a symbolic system of communication. d. a communication system that requires little implicit processing. 46) We often take the complexity of language for granted. This is in part because a. language acquisition requires little practice. b. language acquisition is easy. c. humans do not often consider complex phenomena. d. our use of language is generally automatic. 47) The best predictor of whether someone will achieve fluency in a second language is a. the simplicity of the second language’s structure. b. motivation. c. IQ. d. the age of acquisition. 48) Your family dog is named “Happy.†Anytime your young child sees a dog, she calls out “Happy.†This is an example of a. incorrect word meaning. b. overextension. c. comprehension before production.