The Fan Effect Appears to Occur Because ______

question 5

Multiple Choice

The fan effect appears to occur because ______.

• A)unrelated pieces of information interfere with the retrieval of each other
• B)we can only hold on to so much information at once and must get rid of overflow
• C)the more information you know about a topic,the longer it takes to sort through
• D)information gets shoved out of long-term memory by environmental triggers

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Definitions:

Negative Reinforcement

A behavioral principle where the removal of an unpleasant stimulus following a particular behavior increases the likelihood of that behavior being repeated.

Proximate Cause

The direct or immediate cause of an event or outcome, as opposed to more distant or ultimate causes.

Innate Behavior

Behaviors that are hardwired into an organism's biology and that an organism performs correctly the first time in response to a stimulus, without prior experience or learning.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.