Years ago, you read a story called "Le Petit Prince" ("The Little Prince") in French. According to the encoding-specificity principle, you would be likely to remember more about the story if
a. you were asked questions about it in English.
b. you were asked questions about it in French.
c. you were asked to think about how the story related to your own life.
d. you were asked to think about how the words appeared on the pages of the book
Answer: b. you were asked questions about it in French.
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a. ?proximity b. ?common fate c. ?synchrony d. ?continuity
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a. calculating the mean of as many scores as we can get from the population. b. calculating the mean of a random sample drawn from the population. c. calculating the mean of a sample and then transforming it to reflect the size of the population. d. calculating all measures of central tendency for a random sample drawn from the population.
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