Which of the following is a mnemonic technique?
a. Making a rhyme out of the last letter of all items in a list to be recalled.
b. Using maintenance rehearsal to keep information in long-term memory.
c. Making bizarre and unusual associations.
d. Using the tip-of-the-tongue effect.
ANSWER: c
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a. More educated students have taken aptitude tests so frequently that for them such tests are no longer pure measures of aptitude. b. Comparisons of mental age with chronological age are inadequate for assessing the aptitude of older and more educated students. c. There is a relatively restricted range of aptitude test scores among students at higher educational levels. d. Among more educated students, motivation has a much greater effect on academic success than does aptitude.
When two sets of measures have been found to be totally independent of each other, then the
a. correlation between them must be negative b. correlation between them must be positive c. correlation between them must be zero d. no attempt to calculate the correlation should be made