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Diane

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Brian is trying to remember the colors of the visible spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Brian decides to use the acronym ROYGBIV, which contains the first letter of each of the colors' names. Brian is using ____ to remember the colors.
 
  a. the method of loci
  b. semantic coding
  c. a mnemonic strategy
  d. decomposition

Question 2

Aliens abducted Wally and destroyed his capacity to form any new episodic memories. In other words, they damaged Wally's ____, causing ____ amnesia.
 
  a. hippocampus; anterograde
  b. hippocampus; retrograde
  c. hypothalamus; retrograde
  d. hypothalamus; anterograde



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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
c

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
a



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