Suppose That Your Professor Makes a Graph That Shows the Relationship

question 66

Multiple Choice

Suppose that your professor makes a graph that shows the relationship between the order in which a topic was covered in the course and the class's accuracy on test items for that topic. This graph would be called as a

• A) serial position curve.
• B) free recall curve.
• C) memory span curve.
• D) Brown/Peterson & Peterson curve.

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