Learning Produces Structural Changes in the Brain; When These Structural

question 99

Multiple Choice

Learning produces structural changes in the brain; when these structural changes simply go away over time,the phenomenon is termed:

• A) interference.
• B) decay.
• C) memory lapse.
• D) brain damage.

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Definitions:

Median

The middle value of a data set when it is ordered from smallest to largest, or the average of the two middle values when the dataset has an even number of observations.

Outliers

Observations in a dataset that fall far outside the range of values of other observations, potentially skewing the results or analysis.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of a data set, commonly the mean, median, or mode.

Statistic

A single measure, reported as a number, used to summarize a sample of data.