Your instructor said that as students leave final exams, most of what they have learned is sucked out of their brains by a machine positioned over the door! You know he likes to use humor to illustrate points,
but this one has you confused. When you look at your friend's notes, what will you see that she wrote as a summary of the instructor's point?
a) nonsense syllables
b) curve of forgetting
c) motivated forgetting
d) retrograde amnesia
ANS: b
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