Author Question: Thirty years ago, it took Margie ten hours to learn how to ride a bike. She has not ridden a bike ... (Read 153 times)

V@ndy87 · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Thirty years ago, it took Margie ten hours to learn how to ride a bike. She has not ridden a bike since then. Now she is relearning how to ride a bike, but this time, it takes her only five hours. Because it took her less time to relearn the skill than to learn it initially, Margie is demonstrating ____.

a. the recency effect
b. savings
c. retroactive inhibition
d. proactive inhibition

Question 2

Alexis is in a courtroom as an eyewitness to a crime. Alexis ____.

a. might be influenced by her own emotional needs in what she remembers
b. will remember things exactly as they occurred
c. will not be biased in her recall of the events
d. will have no trouble retrieving memories from long-term memory because of the stress of being on the witness stand