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In a Classic Experiment, a Psychologist Read a Short Passage

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In a classic experiment, a psychologist read a short passage in Greek to his son every day when the boy was between 15 months and 3 years of age. At age 8, he was asked to recall the passage, to recognize the passage, and later to memorize the original quotations and others of equal difficulty. Which of the following was the most sensitive measure of memory in this study?


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Independent Events

Two or more events where the occurrence of one does not affect the probability of occurrence of the others.

Independent Events

Independent events are two or more events whose outcomes do not influence each other, meaning the occurrence of one event does not affect the probability of the other.

Mutually Exclusive Events

Two or more events that cannot occur at the same time in any given experiment or real-life situation.

Conditional Probability

The probability of one event occurring with some relationship to one or more other events.

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