Avery, McKay, and Wilson's (2008) Findings Indicate That Both African

question 13

Multiple Choice

Avery, McKay, and Wilson's (2008) findings indicate that both African Americans and ________ believe they are more likely to experience race-related discrimination in the workplace than their White counterparts.

• A) Women
• B) Hispanics
• C) Eastern Europeans
• D) Asian Americans

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Definitions:

Encoding

The process by which information is transformed into a format that can be stored in memory.

Storage

In cognitive psychology, the retention of information or experiences in the brain for later retrieval, an essential component of the memory process.

Retrieval

The process of accessing and recalling information or memories from one's mind.

Fuzzy Trace Theory

States that memory is best understood by considering two types of memory representations: (1) verbatim memory trace; and (2) fuzzy trace, or gist. According to this theory, older children’s better memory is attributed to the fuzzy traces created by extracting the gist of information.