Dr. Vargas can remember hundreds of students' names from his twenty-five years of university teaching, but has difficulty remembering the new three-digit area code for his home phone number. This is one illustration of

___________ is the desire to make significant accomplishments by mastering skills or meeting high standards.

a. Need for cognition b. Need for achievement c. Self-consciousness d. Sensation seeking

High levels of organization at retrieval suggest that very knowledgeable children's recall of items in their area of expertise is

A) based largely on verbatim memory. B) automatic. C) the result of their exceptional metacognitive skills. D) based largely on gist memory.