If You Were to Cut a Small Permanent Bar Magnet

question 64

Multiple Choice

If you were to cut a small permanent bar magnet in half,

• A) each piece would in itself be a smaller bar magnet with both north and south poles.
• B) one piece would be a magnetic north pole and the other piece would be a south pole.
• C) neither piece would be magnetic.
• D) None of these statements is true.

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Definitions:

Nonsense Syllables

Sequences of letters that do not form known words, used in memory and learning experiments to study the processes of encoding and recall.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

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

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The shortest-term element of memory, which allows the retention of impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.

Constructive Processing

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