Over the Past 400 Years,humans Have Documented the Extinction of More

question 54

Multiple Choice

Over the past 400 years,humans have documented the extinction of more than species.This modern rate of species extinction is estimated to be the normal extinction rate seen in the fossil record.

• A)400 ...about double
• B)1,000 ...over 100 times greater than
• C)100 ...about the same as
• D)10,000 ...at least 1 million times greater than

Understand the adaptive functions of remembering and forgetting within human cognition.

Grasp the impact of schemas and existing knowledge on memory recall and reconstruction.

Identify the role of the cerebellum and other brain structures in different types of memory.

Distinguish between different types of working memory components and their functions, including the central executive and visual-spatial sketchpad.

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