After getting hit in the head with a line drive during a baseball game, Clancy had difficulties forming and encoding new memories. Strangely, though, he had no difficulty accessing his older memories. Clancy probably suffered an injury to his _____

Fill in the blank with correct word

Answer: hippocampus

Psychology

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Which memory system has an unlimited capacity and can keep information for minutes or decades?

a. Short-term memory b. Long-term memory c. The sensory register d. Working memory

Psychology

Set-theoretical models suggest that concepts are represented as sets of information and that a set may include:

A) attributes from disparate categories B) instances from related categories C) attributes of a category D) members of related categories E) information unrelated to the category

Psychology