Ever Since the Beginning of the School Year, Jason Has

Multiple Choice

Ever since the beginning of the school year, Jason has spent 30 minutes every afternoon drilling Joshua, his younger brother who is in the fourth grade, on basic multiplication and division problems. Three months later, Joshua responds almost instantly with the answer to basic multiplication and division problems. Considering what you've read in Chapter 6 on the biological basis of memory, which of the following has probably happened to Joshua?

A) State-dependent retrieval has occurred.
B) Structural and functional changes have occurred in the specific neurons involved in his new memories.
C) The repeated practice sessions successfully blocked long-term potentiation and promoted memory consolidation of the new information.
D) Imagination inflation has reversed the course of normal forgetting.