Sid Has Always Enjoyed Working on His Grandfather's Farm and Tinkering

question 362

Multiple Choice

Sid has always enjoyed working on his grandfather's farm and tinkering with engines in the tractors and the other heavy machinery. If Sid were to take an interest inventory, his interest would most likely be within which theme area?

• A)realistic
• B)enterprising
• C)conventional
• D)investigative

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Definitions:

Retroactive Interference

The phenomenon where newly learned information interferes with the recall of information learned previously.

Proactive Interference

The phenomenon where old memories interfere with the recall of new memories.

Encoding Specificity Principle

The principle that recall is most effective when information available at the time of recall is similar to the information available at the time of encoding.

Depth-Of-Processing Principle

A concept suggesting that information that is thought about at a deeper, more meaningful level is more likely to be remembered than information processed at a superficial level.