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gbarreiro

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Suppose that a professor asks the students in her class to say their names out loud (one at a time) on the first day of class. Then she asks them to write down as many of their classmates' names as they can recall.
 
  Then she constructs a graph that shows Number of correct responses on the Y-axis and Serial position of the name on the X-axis. The shape of the graph
   a. will be a straight line, with the greatest accuracy on the first items.
   b. will be a straight line, with the greatest accuracy on the last items.
   c. will be an upside-down U-shaped line, with the greatest accuracy on the middle items.
   d. will be a U-shaped line, with the greatest accuracy on the first and last items.

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Suppose that you are having trouble recalling the information for a question about Baddeley's theory because the information about Atkinson and Shiffrin's theory (which you learned earlier) keeps interfering. This phenomenon is called
 
  a. proactive interference.
  b. the recency effect.
  c. the primacy effect.
  d. chunking.


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Hdosisshsbshs

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Ans: d

Answer to Question 2

Ans: a


gbarreiro

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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