Sarah Taught Herself to Play a Song on the Piano

question 212

Multiple Choice

Sarah taught herself to play a song on the piano but later discovered that she had the timing somewhat wrong.She is having difficulty remembering the correct timing because she keeps playing it the way she taught herself to play it.Based on what is known about memory failures, you should conclude that Sarah's problem results from:

• A)retroactive interference
• B)transfer-appropriate processing
• C)proactive interference
• D)chunking

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Definitions:

Central Limit Theorem

A statistical theory stating that, given a sufficiently large sample size from a population with a finite level of variance, the mean of all samples will be approximately equal to the mean of the population, with the samples approximating a normal distribution.

Statistical Inference

The process of drawing conclusions about population properties based on a sample taken from the population.

Sample Proportion

The fraction or percentage of items in a sample that exhibit a particular trait or characteristic.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in a dataset differ from the mean.