What Percentage of Students Drop Out of High School Each

question 131

Multiple Choice

What percentage of students drop out of high school each year?

• A) 6%
• B) 8%
• C) 10%
• D) 12%

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Definitions:

Cue Overload

A principle of memory that states a retrieval cue will be most effective when it is highly distinctive and not related to any other target memories.

Distinctive

Having a quality or characteristic that makes something easily identifiable and sets it apart from others.

Mood-dependent Memory Effect

The phenomenon where an individual's current mood affects the recall of memories congruent with that mood.

State-Dependent Learning

The phenomenon that recall is easier when the pharmacological state of the person at recall matches his or her pharmacological state during encoding.