________ are the actual objects and events that we use words to represent

Alice has just delivered her baby; however, because of financial constraints she has to go back to working both of her jobs, and she can't give her baby the attention and stimulation it needs. Now her baby is suffering from

a) kwashiorkor. b) marasmus. c) nonorganic failure to thrive. d) SIDS.

When breaking long lists of information into sublists, make the middle sublists the shortest of all due to

a. the effects of maintenance rehearsal. b. cue-dependent forgetting. c. the effects of spaced practice. d. the serial position effect.