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yoroshambo

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What role do schemas play in recognizing and understanding new experiences?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The behavioral inhibition system is
 
  a. responsible for feelings of anxiety.
  b. responsible for positive affect.
  c. associated with approach responses.
  d. intimately linked with the neurotransmitter dopamine.



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Answer to Question 1

New events are identified by matching their features to features in memory (schemas). If the features of the new stimulus resemble features of an existing schema, the new stimulus is identifiable. Each perception, or interpretation, is based partly on incoming information and partly on what is already in memory.

Answer to Question 2

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