Your Boss Has Asked You to Locate and Manage a Set

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Essay

Your boss has asked you to locate and manage a set of work files that your colleague created a month ago. Describe the steps you would take to find, manage, and organize these files using Windows 7.

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Definitions:

Serial Position Effect

A memory phenomenon where recall accuracy varies as a function of an item's position within a study list, often showing enhanced memory for items at the beginning and end of the list.

Primacy Effect

The tendency for individuals to remember information presented at the beginning of a list better than information appearing in the middle or end.

Recency Effect

A cognitive bias which results in better recall of the most recent items or experiences in a series due to their late position in memory retrieval.

State-Dependent Memory Effect

The tendency to recall information better if one is in the same pharmacological or psychological state as when the information was encoded.