In Your Book's Example,you Read a List of Names and Then

question 37

Multiple Choice

In your book's example,you read a list of names and then tried to recall how many started with J;if you tended to overestimate the number of J names,it was probably due to the effects of _______ on the use of the _______ heuristic.

• A)frequency;availability
• B)familiarity;availability
• C)stereotyping;representativeness
• D)salience;representativeness

Learn about maintenance and elaborative rehearsal strategies for retaining information in short-term and encoding it into long-term memory.

Identify the role of the self-reference effect in enhancing memory retention.

Explain the cultural influences on autobiographical memory and its characteristics.

Understand methods for encoding information into long-term memory using visual imagery.

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Definitions:

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a dataset, providing a measure of the overall spread.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion indicating how far each number in the set is from the mean and from each other.

Standard Deviation

Standard deviation is a measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Salaries

Payments made regularly by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker.