Research Shows That Introducing a Time Delay Between the Presentation

question 3

Multiple Choice

Research shows that introducing a time delay between the presentation of a list of words and a recall test impairs performance on recall of the end of the list.This finding can be interpreted as evidence for which theory of forgetting?

• A)decay theory
• B)interference theory
• C)motivated forgetting theory
• D)encoding failure theory

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