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Describe the difference between an “estimator variable” and a “system variable” in eyewitness memory/identification, giving an example of each within your definitions. 

Explain Loftus’s metaphor of the effects of misinformation on memory for an event being like a drop of milk being added to water.

Hypnosis is one reliable way to “unlock,” or access accurate and detailed versions of memories that have proven difficult to retrieve.

In a classic study by Carmichael, Hogan, and Walters (1932), participants were given ambiguous drawings with one of two different labels. Later, they were asked to draw the figures they had encoded. During this retrieval phase, they ________, demonstrating the memory sin of ________.

You patient has a long leg cast on the left leg, but is allowed to bear weight while ambulating. During the swing phase, what motion will likely be necessary in order for the person to advance the limb forward?

You have been asked to take goniometric measurements of the shoulder on a patient who is unable to tolerate side lying positioning due to a hip pathology. What is your best course of action?

The pelvic force couple that combines to pull the pelvis into an anterior tilt are the:

A PTA is working with an elderly patient on AAROM exercises to all extremities. During combined hip and knee flexion movements, the patient complains of sharp pain in the hip. What is the PTA’s best course of action? 

A PTA starts a treatment session at 9:03 AM and finishes the treatment session at 10:04 AM, with the patient taking a restroom break from 9:12 AM to 9:31 AM. How many minutes of the treatment session are billable?

Trauma to the femoral nerve could impair any of the following muscles EXCEPT the: