The Pragmatic View of Memory Proposes That

question 88

Multiple Choice

The pragmatic view of memory proposes that

• A) people typically pay attention to the gist of a story; however, if they realize that exact wording is important, they are likely to emphasize verbatim recall.
• B) people are more concerned with the politeness of a message than with its grammatical structure or the specific meaning in that message.
• C) people realize that researchers are going to be testing verbatim recall, so they pay much more attention to the specific words than they do in real-life situations.
• D) we tend to remember schema-inconsistent material more accurately than schema-consistent material.

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