Fitting a Linear Trend to 36 Monthly Data Points (January

question 66

Multiple Choice

Fitting a linear trend to 36 monthly data points (January 2011 = 1,February 2011 =2,March 2011 = 3,etc.) produced the following tables. The projected trend value for January 2014 is ________.

• A) 544.29
• B) 868.61
• C) 652.39
• D) 760.50
• E) 876.90

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Definitions:

Encoding Specificity Effect

The principle that recall is more effective when retrieval conditions are similar to the conditions under which information was encoded.

TOT Effect

The "Tip-of-the-Tongue" phenomenon, where a person cannot recall a specific word or term even though it feels just out of reach.

Serial Position Effect

A cognitive phenomenon where an individual tends to remember the first and last items in a series better than the middle items.

Phi Phenomenon

The Phi Phenomenon is the optical illusion of perceiving continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, foundational in the study of motion perception.