Chapter 5 Describes a Study by Marian and Fausey, Who

question 49

Multiple Choice

Chapter 5 describes a study by Marian and Fausey, who studied English-Spanish bilinguals. They presented two stories in English and two stories in Spanish. Then the researchers asked questions about the stories, sometimes in English and sometimes in Spanish. The results showed that

• A) there were no significant differences between conditions, demonstrating that encoding-specificity effect is weak.
• B) people were more accurate in the English-English condition, compared with the Spanish-Spanish condition.
• C) people were more accurate in the Spanish-Spanish condition, compared with the English-English condition.
• D) people were more accurate when the language of the stories matched the language of the questions.

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