Someone leaves a phone number on your answering machine. You repeat the number to yourself as you start to dial. Then, your mother asks you a question. You answer her and then turn back to the phone to complete your dialing only to realize that you do not remember the last three digits. This illustrates how short-term memory is affected by interruption, or
a. dishabituation.
b. priming.
c. chunking.
d. displacement.
D
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a. rejected children c. controversial children b. children of average status d. neglected children
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a) unconscious; id. b) ego; unconscious. c) conscious; preconscious. d) unconscious; preconscious.
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a) coarticulation. b) suprasegmentation. c) categorical perception. d) semantic parsing.
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