Pick five of the following questions to write about in essayform, merci (an essay is comprised of at least five sentences)!
1. Discuss the distinction between inductive and deductivereasoning and give an example of each.
2. Your friend Jane is having difficulty \"taking in\" theinformation in her history class so she asks you to use yourexpertise in psychology to offer some suggestions on how to improveher memory performance. Discuss how attention, deep processing,elaboration, and the use of mental imagery can affect the encodingprocess.
3. Patricia wants to decrease the frequency of her teenagedaughter's misbehavior. Give examples of positive and negativepunishment techniques Patricia might consider in order to encourageher daughter to behave properly.
4. Describe the four stages in Piaget's theory of cognitivedevelopment. What major milestones are achieved at each stage?
5. If you were asked by some coworkers to help settle acontroversy about whether heredity or environment is more importantin shaping development, what would you tell them?
6. What is the difference between positivereinforcement-negative reinforcement and positivepunishment-negative punishment?
7. Emily and Samantha were in a boating accident and both nowsuffer from amnesia. Emily has been diagnosed with retrogradeamnesia, whereas Samantha has been diagnosed with anterogradeamnesia. Describe what Emily and Samantha will likely forget.
