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sam.t96

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Absentminded behavior is most likely to occur
 
  a. when you are performing a very important behavior.
  b. when you are performing a source-monitoring task.
  c. when you are performing a routine activity, but you are thinking about the separate steps involved in the action.
  d. when a prospective-memory task requires you to interrupt a routine activity.

Question 2

According to the discussion of prospective and retrospective memory,
 
  a. distinctive encoding improves performance on both kinds of memory tasks.
  b. the research on retrospective memory is typically higher in ecological validity than is the research on prospective memory.
  c. a delay period has a stronger effect on retrospective memory than on prospective memory.
  d. retrospective-memory tasks typically activate the frontal lobe of the brain, but prospective-memory tasks do not.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: d

Answer to Question 2

Ans: a



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