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While walking across the quad with your friend Dan, you run into an old girlfriend, Wendy. Only seconds after being introduced to Dan, Wendy says to him, So, Stan, what's your major? Noticing that Dan appears agitated about his name being messed up, you explain, Hey, Dan, information is usually ____ encoded into short-term memory, and this kind of error is common.
 
  a. visually
  b. semantically
  c. procedurally
  d. acoustically

Question 2

You give your friend instructions about what to buy for a party by quickly rattling off fifteen unrelated grocery store items. Then to check whether your friend got all the information, you ask him to repeat the grocery list back to you. You should expect that your friend will recall about ____ items.
 
  a. two
  b. fifteen
  c. four
  d. seven



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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
d

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
d



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