1. Camille is furious with her history professor. "I read the chapter three times, but I still failed the exam," she fumes. "The test must have been unfair." What's wrong with Camille's reasoning, and what are some other possible explanations for her poor
based on principles of critical thinking and what you have learned so far about memory?
What will be an ideal response?
Camille is reasoning emotionally and is not examining the assumptions underlying her explanation. Perhaps she relied on automatic rather than effortful encoding, used maintenance instead of elaborative rehearsal, and used shallow instead of deep processing when she studied. Perhaps she didn't try to actively retrieve and recall the material while studying. She may also have tried to encode everything instead of being selective.
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