Question: Who was Seattle's , and the nation's, first female mayor?
Answer: Bertha Knight Landes

Question: What is the sex of the majority of Seattle's city council?
Answer: female

Question: Of what Congressional district is Seattle a part?
Answer: 7th congressional district

Question: To which states' election laws are Seattle's law and ballots similar?
Answer: Like most

Question: Who is the representative for Seattle's district?
Answer: Jim McDermott

Question: When was McDermott elected to office?
Answer: 1988

Question: Who is the present mayor of Seattle?
Answer: Ed Murray

Question: What percentage of the Seattle population has a bachelor's degree?
Answer: 53.8%

Question: How was Seattle ranked on literacy in 2005-2006?
Answer: most literate

Question: What is the national average of obtaining a bachelor's degree?
Answer: 27.4%

Question: How much of the Seattle population have high school diplomas?
Answer: 91.9%

Question: What is the national average of high school diploma holding citizens?
Answer: 84.5%

Question: What type of radio stations abound in Seattle?
Answer: Non-commercial

Question: Where has KEXP pioneered in Radio?
Answer: Internet radio

Question: What are KUOW and KPLU radio stations?
Answer: NPR affiliates

Question: With what educational facility is KEXP-FM aligned?
Answer: UW

Question: What radio station is operated by the public school system?
Answer: KNHC-FM 89.5

Question: What is the Seattle newspaper as of 2010?
Answer: The Seattle Times

Question: Who sells the newspaper Real Change on the street?
Answer: homeless persons

Question: In what venue does the Seattle Post-Intelligencer publish?
Answer: on-line

Question: In what year did the Seattle Post-Intelligencer  first publish?
Answer: 1863

Question: What is the LGBT newspaper called?
Answer: Seattle Gay News

Question: What is Seattle's bus line called?
Answer: King County Metro

Question: What service runs between South Lake Union and Westlake Center?
Answer: South Lake Union Streetcar

Question: What organization runs the largest line of ferries in the US?
Answer: Washington State Ferries

Question: How does the Seattle ferry line compare to the rest of the world?
Answer: third largest

Question: To what two islands does the ferry service connect?
Answer: Bainbridge and Vashon

Question: What kind of hospital is Seattle Children's?
Answer: pediatric referral center

Question: Besides serving Washington, Idaho, and Montana, what northern state uses Seattle Children's?
Answer: Alaska

Question: What entity operates Harborview?
Answer: University of Washington

Question: In what neighborhood is the Fred Hutchington Cancer Research Center located?
Answer: Eastlake

Question: Where is the Veterans Affairs Hospital located?
Answer: Beacon Hill

Question: What machine caused the end of city rail lines in Seattle?
Answer: automobile

Question: The use of what caused the end of the use of streetcars in 1941?
Answer: trolleybus

Question: When did the Tacoma-Seattle rail service end?
Answer: 1929

Question: In what year did the Everett-Seattle rail lines cease?
Answer: 1939

Question: In what year were the first streetcars used in Seattle?
Answer: 1889

Question: What is mainly used for transportation in Seattle?
Answer: streets

Question: What road was built in 1953 and later damaged by an earthquake?
Answer: Alaskan Way Viaduct

Question: What is planned to replace the Alaska Way Viaduct?
Answer: tunnel

Question: When is the tunnel now expected to be finished?
Answer: 2017

Question: What was the original projected cost of the viaduct replacement tunnel?
Answer: $4.25 billion

Question: What educational institution is at home in Seattle?
Answer: University of Washington

Question: Where can a student find to study art in Seattle?
Answer: arts colleges

Question: What is the purpose of the University of Washington Outreach?
Answer: continuing education

Question: In what year did Time magazine choose Seattle Central Community College as community college of the year?
Answer: 2001

Question: Beside the public universities, what other type of institutions provide education in Seattle?
Answer: private universities

Question: On what type of transportation system has Seattle begun to focus?
Answer: mass transit

Question: From what kind of transportation has Seattle been moving away?
Answer: automobile

Question: What measure was passed by Seattle voters in 2006?
Answer: RapidRide

Question: By what year do plans call for the completion of a rail line to Bellevue?
Answer: 2023

Question: Which former mayor backed the expansion of rail lines from downtown to Ballard?
Answer: Michael McGinn

Question: Which three processes does phychology recognize as memory?
Answer: process in which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.

Question: Why may some memory retrieval processes fail?
Answer: the type of information, and other attempts to remember stored information may be more demanding for various reasons.

Question: What happens to information during the encoding process?
Answer: g allows information from the outside world to be sensed in the form of chemical and physical stimuli.

Question: What is the second memory stage?
Answer: Storage

Question: What is the third process that happens during the memory process?
Answer: retrieval of information that has been stored

Question: What does short-term memory depend on?
Answer: an acoustic code for storing information, and to a lesser extent a visual code.

Question: What did conrad find about test subjects?
Answer: subjects had more difficulty recalling collections of letters that were acoustically similar

Question: What does Conrads finding seem to mean?
Answer: . Confusion with recalling acoustically similar letters rather than visually similar letters implies that the letters were encoded acoustically.

Question: What was Conrads deal with?
Answer: encoding of written text;

Question: What is another name for short-term memory?
Answer: working memory.

Question: What exactly does short-term memory allow a person to do?
Answer: recall for a period of several seconds to a minute without rehearsal

Question: How much information can one store and recall in short-term memory?
Answer: capacity is also very limited

Question: How can one higher their memory capacity?
Answer: chunking.

Question: Why do some countries display numbers in chunks of two to four numbers?
Answer: because we are able to chunk the information into meaningful groups of numbers

Question: Why can't some memories be held onto forever?
Answer: The storage in sensory memory and short-term memory generally has a strictly limited capacity and duration

Question: If a memory that is stored in with long term-memories, how long can you possibly rememeber it?
Answer: sometimes a whole life span)

Question: What is the capacity of long term memory?
Answer: capacity is immeasurable

Question: If you knew a telephone number one week ago, but have forgotten it now, where was this memory stored?
Answer: in our short-term memory

Question: What are some examples of units that short-term memory can be categorized in to?
Answer: visual information and acoustic information

Question: Who performed a study in 1986 invovling a participant known as KF?
Answer: Zlonoga and Gerber

Question: What did KF disprove during this study?
Answer: Atkinson–Shiffrin model.

Question: What did KF have trouble doing?
Answer: difficulties regarding short-term memory.

Question: What did this study seem to conclude?
Answer: a dichotomy between visual and audial memory.

Question: Which part of the brain does short-term memory seem to rely on?
Answer: frontal lobe (especially dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) and the parietal lobe

Question: Which part of the brain does long-term memory rely on?
Answer: hippocampus

Question: How much information can the hippocampus store?
Answer: does not