The Results of the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey Suggest

question 15

Multiple Choice

The results of the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey suggest that approximately ________ of Canadians aged 15 years or older may be living with symptoms consistent with a mental or substance use disorder.

• A) 2 per cent
• B) 10 per cent
• C) 15 per cent
• D) 20 per cent
• E) 25 per cent

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Definitions:

Encoding Specificity

A principle stating that the recall of information is improved when the conditions during retrieval are similar to the conditions during encoding.

Retrieval Cues

Stimuli or prompts that help in the recall of information stored in memory.

Infant Amnesia

The phenomenon in which older children and adults are unable to recall memories from the first few years of life, theorized to be due to the development of the hippocampus and other memory-related brain structures.

Explicit Memory Tests

Assessments that measure the recall of specific information, requiring conscious effort to retrieve memories.