An Experiment Demonstrated That People Who Were Better at Forgetting

question 63

Multiple Choice

An experiment demonstrated that people who were better at forgetting irrelevant word pairs were good at remembering relevant word pairs. Their forgetting was adaptive because it reduced

• A) interference.
• B) implicit memory.
• C) the spacing effect.
• D) semantic processing.

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