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Seth participated in a memory experiment. He has been instructed to count backwards between the last presentation of a stimulus and recall of the stimulus. This procedure was probably designed to ____.
 
  a. prevent participants from rehearsing
 b. disorient participants about the experiment' purpose
  c. allow some decay to occur
 d. increase depth of processing

Question 2

Stephanie has been studying for two exams scheduled on the same day, one for her Spanish class and the other for French. While taking the Spanish exam, she remembers more French than Spanish. Stephanie is most likely to be experiencing ____.
 
  a. decay
 b. interference
 c. reconstruction
  d. biasing


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

b


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