Professor Sheehan Spent Most of the Class Session Lecturing on Different

question 51

Multiple Choice

Professor Sheehan spent most of the class session lecturing on different aspects of memory, and ended by reminding her students of the test at the next class session. After her students had shuffled out of the classroom, Professor Sheehan noticed astudent's cellphone on a desk toward the back of the classroom. The student forgetting his cellphone is an everyday example of _____ that is most probably due to _____.

• A)inattentional blindness; source amnesia
• B)source amnesia; retrieval cue failure
• C)prospective memory; retrieval cue failure
• D)absentmindedness; encoding failure

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Definitions:

Animal Models

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Behavioral Neuroscience

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Biological Bases

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Corsi Test

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