Professor Anderson Is Conducting a Memory Study

question 507

Multiple Choice

Professor Anderson is conducting a memory study. Participants learn a word list and then they have to wait 30 seconds before trying to recall the list. During the 30 seconds, participants have to count backwards by three's. What is she researching?

• A)Iconic memory in sensory store
• B)State dependent memory
• C)The serial position effect
• D)Surface encoding
• E)Priming

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