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ID: DSAT-RW-27
Section: Digital SAT Reading & Writing (RW) - Broadly Reading - Information and Ideas
Topic: Command of Evidence – Textual
Difficulty level: Hard

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In the early 20th century, psychologists began systematically studying memory, aiming to understand not only how people retain information, but also how and why they forget. One major theoretical divide developed between researchers who believed memory operated through a single linear process and those who argued that multiple memory systems existed, each responsible for different types of recollection. Endel Tulving, a pioneer of the latter view, proposed that episodic memory (personal experiences tied to specific times and places) is fundamentally distinct from semantic memory (factual knowledge independent of context). He asserted that treating all memory as a single mechanism would oversimplify the cognitive processes involved.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support Tulving's position?

AIn a longitudinal study, participants who suffered injuries to the hippocampus struggled to recall personal events from their past but were still able to recite general facts and definitions with ease.

BPatients with early-stage dementia often show a decline in their ability to remember people's names, addresses, and occupations, even when these individuals are close family members.

CMemory experiments using word lists found that people more accurately recalled information when the words were emotionally charged or personally relevant.

DA new model of memory suggests that information is initially stored in short-term memory and then transferred to long-term storage through a single neural consolidation pathway.

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