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Molly Received an Autographed Poster of David Hasselhoff for Her

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Molly received an autographed poster of David Hasselhoff for her 21st birthday.Her friend Helga offered her $50 for the poster, but Molly refused to sell the poster even though she knows she would never pay that much to replace it if it was ever damaged or destroyed.Explain this inconsistency in Molly's behavior.


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Hermann Ebbinghaus

A German psychologist who is best known for his pioneering work on memory and the forgetting curve.

George Miller

A cognitive psychologist best known for his theory on the limits of short-term memory capacity, famously summarized as "seven plus or minus two" chunks of information.

John Watson

An American psychologist who is considered one of the founders of behaviorism, emphasizing the role of environmental factors in shaping behavior.

Pseudoforgetting

This term refers to the phenomenon where information was never actually learned or encoded into memory, giving the illusion of having forgotten it.

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