Even by the End of the 1948 Presidential Campaign, Almost

question 26

Multiple Choice

Even by the end of the 1948 presidential campaign, almost everyone expected Governor Thomas Dewey to win because

• A) the Republicans had finally united their northeastern internationalist and midwestern isolationist wings.
• B) Truman had run a listless and defensive campaign.
• C) Dewey was such a charming and charismatic candidate.
• D) President Truman seemed unpopular and the Democrats had split three ways.
• E) the Republicans had developed a stronger and more progressive domestic platform.

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Definitions:

Retrograde Amnesia

A loss of memory-access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an incidence of amnesia.

Past Memories

Recollections of personal experiences or events that have occurred in an individual's life.

Levels of Processing Model

A theory suggesting that memory retention is a function of the depth of mental processing, with deeper processing resulting in longer-lasting memory storage.

Elaborative Rehearsal

A technique for memory enhancement which involves deeply processing the item to be remembered by linking it to existing knowledge.