At age 50, Charles cannot remember many of the fun memories from his years in college as well as he could twenty years ago. Charles' difficulty retrieving this information is likely due to
A. decay.
B. motivated forgetting.
C. chunking.
D. encoding specificity.
Answer: A
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b. if the brochure depicted a low level of minority representation, they were comfortable with the idea that thefirm was colorblind. c. if the brochure depicted a high level of minority representation, they were uncomfortable with the idea that thefirm was colorblind. d. the professionals were uncomfortable with the colorblind firm regardless of what was depicted in thebrochure.
The complexity of the interaction between genotype and phenotype may be broadly summed as stating _____________
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The first step in any systematic problem-solving effort is to
a. clarify the problem. b. generate alternative courses of action. c. evaluate your alternatives and select a course of action. d. remain flexible.
Deborah has been under heavy pressure at work for the past few weeks and it has drained her body of all its resources. If the stressor continues, she will soon enter the _____ stage.
a. resistance b. exhaustion c. culmination d. fight or flight