You tell a person that you spent last spring holiday with your
parents because that is where you usually spend your spring holiday, but then your best friend reminds you that you went with her to her parents last spring holiday. Your mistake illustrates our tendency to use logic to fill in gaps in memory, a process known as
a. proactive priming.
b. constructive consolidation.
c. eidetic imaging.
d. elaborative processing.
ANSWER: d
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a. closure. b. figure and ground. c. temporal integration. d. good continuation.
Which U.S. president struggled with depression and wrote "I am now the most miserable man living"?
a. Herbert Hoover c. Bill Clinton b. Abraham Lincoln d. George W. Bush