请教GWD12—7

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The term “episodic memory” was

      introduced by Tulving to refer to what he

      considered a uniquely human capacity—

Line    the ability to recollect specific past events,

  (5)   to travel back into the past in one’s own

mind—as distinct from the capacity simply

to use information acquired through past

experiences.  Subsequently, Clayton et al.

developed criteria to test for episodic

 (10)   memory in animals.  According to these

criteria, episodic memories are not of

individual bits of information; they involve

multiple components of a single event

“bound” together.  Clayton sought to

 (15)   examine evidence of scrub jays’ accurate

memory of “what,” “where,” and “when”

information and their binding of this infor-

mation.  In the wild, these birds store food

for retrieval later during periods of food

 (20)   scarcity.  Clayton’s experiment required

      jays to remember the type, location, and

      freshness of stored food based on a unique

learning event.  Crickets were stored in one

location and peanuts in another.  Jays

 (25)   prefer crickets, but crickets degrade

more quickly.  Clayton’s birds switched

their preference from crickets to peanuts

once the food had been stored for a certain

length of time, showing that they retain

 (30)   information about the what, the where,

and the when.  Such experiments cannot,

however, reveal whether the birds were

      reexperiencing the past when retrieving the

information.  Clayton acknowledged this by

using the term “episodic-like” memory.

Q7:

It can be inferred from the passage that both Tulving and Clayton would agree with which of the following statements?

 

A.   Animals’ abilities to use information about a specific past event are not conclusive evidence of episodic memory.

B.    Animals do not share humans’ abilities to reexperience the past through memory.

C.   The accuracy of animals’ memories is difficult to determine through direct experimentation.

D.   Humans tend to recollect single bits of information more accurately than do animals.

E.    The binding of different kinds of information is not a distinctive feature of episodic memory.

这道题目的答案是A，我觉得这个观点肯定是C那个人同意的，但是T那个人又没有同意文章没有说。B选项为什么不对呢？文章最后一句话C同意了，而且T也说“episodic memory”是 a uniquely human capacity？谢谢大家。

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Such experiments cannot,

however, reveal whether the birds were

      reexperiencing the past when retrieving the

information.Such experiments cannot,

however, reveal whether the birds were

      reexperiencing the past when retrieving the

information.

however, reveal whether the birds were

      reexperiencing the past when retrieving the

information.

这个实验的结果没法证明动物和人拥有的是否是同种能力．Ｂ选项则肯定的说动物没有这种能力．做实验出结果无非是三种可能，证实，证否，无法证明．证否与无法证明不是一个概念喔！