Galileo Observed Venus to Go Through a Full Range of Phases

question 141

Multiple Choice

Galileo observed Venus to go through a full range of phases. Which other planet should also display a full range of phases when viewed from Earth?

• A) Mercury
• B) Mars
• C) Jupiter
• D) any other planet

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Definitions:

Forgetting Curve

A graph that describes the rate at which information is lost over time when there is no attempt to retain it.

Forgetting Rate

The speed at which information is lost from memory over time, an aspect of memory decay.

Intrusion Errors

Memory mistakes in which elements that were not part of the original information get mixed into (“intrude” into) someone’s recall.

Recall

The act of retrieving information or memories from the past, often without the stimulus that initially encoded the memory.