When a Person Fails to Remember Because the Information Was

question 239

Multiple Choice

When a person fails to remember because the information was never put into long-term memory, which of the following has occurred?

• A) Consolidation failure
• B) Encoding failure
• C) Motivated forgetting
• D) Retrieval failure

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Definitions:

Interval Estimate

Interval Estimate refers to a range of values, derived from sample statistics, used to estimate a population parameter.

Standard Error

Measures the accuracy with which a sample represents a population, showing the dispersion of sample means around the true population mean.

Test Statistic

A standardized value derived from sample data during a hypothesis test that is used to determine the p-value or to compare against the critical value.

Population Means

The average value of a set of characteristics or figures for the entire population.