You Are Participating in a Yearbook Study

question 37

Multiple Choice

You are participating in a yearbook study.The experimenter asks if you can recognize students who went to school with you, and if you can recall their names.After high school you retrieve names and recognize faces with 90% accuracy.The experimenter keeps your yearbooks, and forty years later asks you to identify pictures your classmates and to recall their names.What was the result?

• A)you can't distinguish between who you went to school with and who you didn't
• B)you can recognize with almost 80% accuracy the faces of those you went to school with, but only remember 17% of their names
• C)you can recognize with almost 80% accuracy who you went to school with and their names
• D)you can remember with almost 80% accuracy students' names, but not their faces

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Definitions:

Otomycosis

A fungal infection of the ear, usually affecting the ear canal, characterized by pain, itchiness, and possible hearing loss.

Fenestration

A surgical procedure that creates an opening, especially used in ear surgery to restore hearing.

Eustachian

Pertains to the Eustachian tube, a canal that connects the middle ear to the nasopharynx, which helps equalize air pressure on both sides of the eardrum.

Eustachean

Relating to the Eustachian tube, which connects the middle ear cavity with the nasopharynx, helping equalize air pressure on both sides of the eardrum.