Who Is This Man and for What Is He Famous

question 97

Multiple Choice

Who is this man and for what is he famous?

• A)George Sperling, who identified the duration of visual sensory memory
• B)Hermann Ebbinghaus, who used himself as the sole subject in his pioneering studies of forgetting, and plotted the first forgetting curve
• C)Henry Molaison, the man known by his initials, H.M., who had his hippocampus surgically removed more than fifty years ago, producing severe memory deficits
• D)Karl Lashley, who attempted to find the specific brain location of particular memories

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Definitions:

Multiple Correlation

A statistical technique that measures the strength of a relationship between one dependent variable and several independent variables.

Criterion Variable

The dependent variable in a statistical analysis that the researchers are most interested in understanding or predicting.

Predictor Variables

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Linear Regression Equation

A mathematical expression defining a direct relationship between a single dependent variable and several independent variables.