Savanna Is on a Committee Interviewing Applicants for a Position

question 214

Multiple Choice

Savanna is on a committee interviewing applicants for a position with her company.Over the four-hour time period, the committee interviews eight different applicants.Savanna remembers most of the comments made by the first two applications, but she finds it more difficult to remember specific comments made by any of the later applicants.Based on research into memory errors, you should conclude that Savanna's memory difficulties best illustrate:

• A)the primacy effect
• B)motivated forgetting
• C)the recency effect
• D)the spacing effect

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Definitions:

Leukocytes

White blood cells, key components of the immune system involved in protecting the body against both infectious disease and foreign invaders.

Erythrocytes

Red blood cells that carry oxygen from the lungs to the body's tissues and return carbon dioxide from the tissues back to the lungs.

Erythropoiesis

The process by which red blood cells (erythrocytes) are produced in the bone marrow.

Leucopoiesis

The production of white blood cells in the bone marrow, a crucial process for immune system functioning.