Elderly Mr. Flanagan, a retired electrician, can easily remember how to wire a light switch, but he cannot remember the name of the President of the United States. Evidently, Mr. Flanagans ..... is better than his ..... memory

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Elderly Mr. Flanagan, a retired electrician, can easily remember how to wire a light switch, but he cannot remember the name of the President of the United States. Evidently, Mr. Flanagan’s ____ is better than his ____ memory

A	implicit; explicit
B	explicit; implicit
C	declarative; nondeclarative
D	explicit; declarative

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Maintenance rehearsal (or rehearsal) can help move memories from short-term to long-term memory. For example, you might use this approach when studying materials for an exam.

Detailed explanation-2: -Psychologists distinguish between three necessary stages in the learning and memory process: encoding, storage, and retrieval (Melton, 1963). Encoding is defined as the initial learning of information; storage refers to maintaining information over time; retrieval is the ability to access information when you need it.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hippocampus damage can particularly affect spatial memory, or the ability to remember directions, locations, and orientations. Because the hippocampus plays such an important role in the formation of new memories, damage to this part of the brain can have a serious long-term impact on certain types of memory.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mnemonic devices-like acronyms, chunking, and rhymes-work by tapping into how the brain naturally stores data.

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