Last Week, Jacinda Took an Abnormal Psychology Test and Did

question 139

Multiple Choice

Last week, Jacinda took an abnormal psychology test and did not miss a single question. However, when a guest speaker came to class a week later to talk about schizophrenia, Jacinda had trouble remembering some of the relevant class material. She remembered even less about the topic when she saw a news report on schizophrenia a month later. What memory phenomenon explains what Jacinda is experiencing?

• A) mirage effect
• B) serial position curve
• C) free recall curve
• D) curve of forgetting

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