Contestants on “So You Think You Can Dance” are assigned a p…
Contestants on “So You Think You Can Dance” are assigned a phone number that you can call if you would like to vote for them at the end of each week’s show. Say that you choose your favorite dancer and rehearse the number to yourself as you go to another room to get the phone and vote. Say that something else distracts you on your way to the phone and you stop rehearsing the number. Are you likely to be able to remember the number?
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Last year, a BYU student went to support the baseball team at their opening game. During the game, a foul ball struck him in the head. For the next month, the student had memory problems. He would go to lecture but after an hour wouldn’t remember having ever attended. During that month-long period, what was the student experiencing?
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*IMAGINE* that you and a group of other students want to conduct a study on mental rotation, using photographs of human faces. You find that people take the same amount of time to rotate a mental image, regardless of the size of the rotation. Which approach do your data support?
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