Dr Shepard Is an Advocate for Laws That Would Prohibit

question 3

Multiple Choice

Dr. Shepard is an advocate for laws that would prohibit abortion under all circumstances. To make her case, she argues that, of pregnancies that survive the first few weeks, over half are terminated by an abortion. You know that Dr. Shepard's argument is false because the percentage of pregnancies that are terminated by abortion after the first few weeks is actually:

• A) 2%
• B) 6%
• C) 19%
• D) 36%

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Definitions:

Ebbinghaus

A psychologist best known for his research on memory and the forgetting curve, which describes how information is lost over time when there is no attempt to retain it.

Nonsense Syllables

Strings of letters that do not follow grammatical rules and have no meaning, used in psychological experiments to study memory and learning.

Methodology

The system of methods followed in a particular discipline or field of study.

Forgetting

The inability to bring to mind information that was previously remembered.