The fan effect appears to occur because ______.

a. unrelated pieces of information interfere with the retrieval of each other
b. we can only hold on to so much information at once and must get rid of overflow
c. the more information you know about a topic, the longer it takes to sort through
d. information gets shoved out of long-term memory by environmental triggers


c. the more information you know about a topic, the longer it takes to sort through

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a. Skinner b. Piaget c. James d. Kant

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Your skin receptors detect five different sensations, which are cold, warmth, pressure, light touch, and __________

Fill in the blank with correct word

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Thinking in which many possibilities are developed from one starting place is called thinking

a. deductive b. convergent c. divergent d. intuitive

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A) Lungs B) Amygdala C) Liver D) Heart

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