Professor Guavita Gives Surprise Quizzes on a Random Schedule

question 9

Multiple Choice

Professor Guavita gives surprise quizzes on a random schedule.Professor Hoggatt gives the same number of quizzes,but gives them once a week on Mondays.Assuming the quizzes are of equal difficulty,whose students would be under more stress?

• A) Professor Guavita's students
• B) Professor Hoggatt's students
• C) The stress would be equal for both groups.
• D) There is no way of predicting stress levels in this situation.

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Definitions:

State-Dependent Memory

is a phenomenon where the ability to retrieve information is enhanced when the individual is in the same state of consciousness as when the memory was formed.

Context Effects

The influence of environmental factors on one's perception of a stimulus, affecting how the stimulus is processed and understood.

Implicit Memory

A type of memory in which previous experiences aid in the performance of a task without conscious awareness of these previous experiences.

Echoic Memory

A component of sensory memory that retains audio information, allowing the brain to capture and briefly hold sounds after the original stimulus has ceased.