A Collection of People Having Little in Common Except That

question 27

Multiple Choice

A collection of people having little in common except that perhaps they are looking at some common event is a(n)

• A) acting crowd.
• B) casual crowd.
• C) conventional crowd.
• D) deindividualized crowd.

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Definitions:

Spacing Effect

The cognitive phenomenon where learning is facilitated when study sessions are spaced out over time rather than conducted in a single session.

Misinformation Effect

The phenomenon where a person's recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate because of post-event information, often leading to false memories.

Encoding Failure

The inability to transfer information from short-term memory to long-term memory, leading to forgetting.

Proactive Interference

The phenomenon where old memories hinder the recall of newly learned information.