If You Are Unable to Remember the Name of Your

question 71

Multiple Choice

If you are unable to remember the name of your second grade teacher because you haven't thought of her in a while, you are demonstrating

• A) the serial position effect.
• B) transience.
• C) misattribution.
• D) absent-mindedness.
• E) encoding specificity.

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Definitions:

Epiglottis

A leaf-shaped flap of cartilage located behind the tongue, at the top of the larynx, which prevents food and drink from entering the windpipe during swallowing.

Trachea

The windpipe, a tube extending from the larynx to the bronchi, conducting air to and from the lungs in humans and other animals.

pH

A scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution, with lower values being more acidic and higher values more basic.

Sphincters

Circular muscles that control the passage of substances through the openings of the body.