Damon has an average memory, and he is trying to keep a seven-digit phone number in his short-term memory. This number is likely to be ____.?

a. ?too long for him to keep in short-term memory
b. ?forgotten after one second if it is unrehearsed
c. ?encoded acoustically rather than semantically
d. ?remembered if Damon's levels of acetylcholine are low

ANSWER:
c

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French-speaking Canadians tend to be disadvantaged in terms of average annual income relative to English-speaking Canadians, even within Quebšc. Guimond and Dubš (1989) found that Anglophones attributed the disadvantage to:

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