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evelyn o bentley

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Conduct an experiment where participants see a number of target letters flashed briefly on a screen and are told to immediately write down the letters in the order they were presented. It is most likely that the target letter P will be misidentified as
 
  a. L.
  b. I.
  c. R.
  d. C.

Question 2

Suppose you (a student) are asked by a teacher to learn a poem you will recite in front of your class. Soon after, both you and a classmate, J.P., are asked by another teacher to learn the lyrics to an unfamiliar song. When you and J.P. are later asked to remember the song lyrics, you have a much more difficult time recalling them than J.P. does. This impairment of your performance is most likely attributable to
 
  a. proactive interference.
  b. your overloading the phonological loop.
  c. a release from proactive interference.
  d. a recency effect.



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

a



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