Experimenters Gave People a List of Words to Be Recalled

question 110

Multiple Choice

Experimenters gave people a list of words to be recalled. When the participants were tested after a delay,the items that were best recalled were those

• A)at the beginning of the list.
• B)in the middle of the list.
• C)at the end of the list.
• D)at the beginning and the end of the list.

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Definitions:

Rehearsal Loop

A cognitive process involving the repetition of information to keep it in short-term memory or to encode it into long-term memory.

Visuospatial Sketchpad

A component of Baddeley's model of working memory, responsible for the temporal storage and manipulation of visual and spatial information.

Chunking

A process by which individual pieces of information are bound together into a meaningful whole, often enhancing memory retention.

Filtering

Filtering is the process of selectively focusing on certain information while ignoring other stimuli, often used in processing auditory information or in information theory.