Jamie Has Had Her Hippocampus Removed and Cannot Form New

question 135

Multiple Choice

Jamie has had her hippocampus removed and cannot form new memories. Since the surgery, she spends time taking tennis lessons, although she can never remember the lessons after she has them. After a month of lessons, her tennis ability will

• A)not change.
• B)decrease.
• C)increase.
• D)decrease until she stops taking lessons, then it will increase.

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Definitions:

Distribution Table

A table that displays the frequency of various outcomes in a sample, often used in statistics to organize data.

Rule of Five

A statistical rule stating that if a sample size is very small (n=5), the median can serve as an estimate of the population mean under certain conditions.

Observed Frequency

The observed frequency is the actual number of times an event occurs in a dataset or experiment.

Expected Frequency

Expected frequency is a term in statistics indicating the number of times an outcome is anticipated to occur within a set of observations, based on probability.