Suppose that you look at a new term in a foreign language, and this item is then stored in your memory. Cognitive psychologists call this process
a. procedural memory.
b. retrieval.
c. encoding.
d. recognition.
Ans: c
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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a. Buddhism b. Confucianism c. Taoism d. Hinduism
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a. use metaphors to illustrate the number of homeless people. b. dramatize the plight of a single family. c. show pictures of shelters where the homeless go for help. d. ask people to imagine themselves in the situation of a homeless person.