According to the Discussion of Prospective and Retrospective Memory

question 74

Multiple Choice

According to the discussion of prospective and retrospective memory,

• A) distinctive encoding improves performance on both kinds of memory tasks.
• B) the research on retrospective memory is typically higher in ecological validity than is the research on prospective memory.
• C) a delay period has a stronger effect on retrospective memory than on prospective memory.
• D) retrospective-memory tasks typically activate the frontal lobe of the brain, but prospective-memory tasks do not.

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