Which of the following would be an example of "argument by anecdote"?

a. "My gut feeling is that it isn't the right time to get married."
b. "I know that marriage doesn't work out, because both of my uncles ended up divorced and alone."
c. "That is my opinion and nothing is going to change my mind."
d. "What evidence is there to support your claim?"

Answer: b

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that semantic and episodic memory a. deteriorate at the same rate. b. are actually the same system. c. are both related to a third underlying memory system. d. are separate systems in the brain. e. piggyback onto each other.

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Which of these is not a memory process?

(a) storage (b) retrieval (c) generalization (d) encoding

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