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audie

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Suppose you are thinking about a male student whom you met during your first year of college.
 
  You can recall that he knew your high school English teacher, that he didn't like his roommate, that he was average height and weight, and he wore glassesbut you cannot remember his name. This situation is an example of
   a. graceful degradation.
   b. spontaneous generalization.
   c. serial processing.
   d. default assignment.

Question 2

The parallel distributed processing approach to memory accounts for the way people make default assignments. If you were to make a default assignment about a woman you do not know very well, you might
 
  a. assume that she is guilty of a crime, even if she is not.
  b. insist that you heard information about her, even if you did not.
  c. forget relevant information that you actually heard about her.
  d. believe that she is fairly sophisticated, because she comes from a large city.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: a

Answer to Question 2

Ans: d



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