Homework Help: Psychology

Posted by Tisha on Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 8:46am.

When a student took her psychology quiz, she did badly on the essay question. Ealier, she had written a good practic essay on this concept. The failure of which memory process led to her poor essay performance?

A) Encoding
B) Retrieval
C) Repression
D) Storage

I think the answer is A, because encoding is the first process of memory. Do any of you agree?

Psychology - drwls, Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 8:53am
I do not agree. I think it would be B or D
Psychology - Tisha, Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 8:57am
I guess re-reading the question probably D) storage, because if it isnt stored in memory you cant retrive it.
Psychology - PsyDAG, Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 3:01pm
If she did well on the practice essay, the information was defintely stored. Encoding is part of the process of acquiring information. Unless the information was emotionally traumatic, it would not be repressed. If it was, it would not have been there for the practice quiz.

Especially if the the actual quiz is stressful for her, she would have problems with retrieval.

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