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Diane

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The improved retention of one piece of information that is made distinct or different from the information around it (e.g., underlining one word in a to-be-remembered list in red ink) is __________.
 
  a. content accuracy
  b. technical accuracy
  c. priming
  d. von Restorff / isolation effect

Question 2

__________ is knowledge about one's own memory functioning: how it works and fails to work.
 
  a. Metaanalysis
  b. Metacognition
  c. Metaawareness
  d. Metamemory



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: d

Answer to Question 2

Answer: d



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