When a Very Small Dog Licks 2-Year-Old Abby's Hand, Abby

question 5

Multiple Choice

When a very small dog licks 2-year-old Abby's hand, Abby calls the animal a cat because her framework of knowledge about cats relates to small animals and her framework of knowledge about dogs relates to bigger animals. Her retrieval of the label "cat" was MOST clearly influenced by which of the following?

• A) the misinformation effect
• B) storage decay
• C) an existing schema
• D) infantile amnesia

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Definitions:

Means

Means refer to the average values of sets of data, calculated by summing all values and dividing by the number of data points.

≠ 0

Symbol indicating that a quantity or difference is not equal to zero, often used in hypotheses testing to signify a non-null effect.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, often used to estimate the accuracy of sample mean as an approximation of the population mean.