When Gladys, who was hard-of-hearing, attended her grandson's graduation, she devoted an inordinate amount of energy to just listening and trying to make sense of what she was hearing. Consequently, the next day, when her girlfriend asked her what the celebrity guest speaker spoke about, she could not remember. Gladys's failure to encode the speech into her memory is best accounted for by which
explanation?
A) Inhibition-deficit
B) Recollection-deficit
C) Sensory-deficit
D) Processing-resources-deficit
C
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a. emotional b. physical c. sexual d. spiritual
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b. on functional brain scans. c. during an autopsy. d. during an EEG examination.
Attributions are
a. causes of other people's behavior. b. inferences that people draw about the causes of behavior and events. c. the tendency to explain other people's behavior as the result of personal, rather than situational factors. d. a measure of people's personalities.
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a. ?storage and retrieval b. ?attention and integration c. ?transduction and transporting d. ?encoding and transcription