An Experimental Psychologist Wants to Study the Effects of Depth

question 5

Multiple Choice

An experimental psychologist wants to study the effects of depth of processing controlling for the effects of other study strategies that the participants might use spontaneously if they know they are going to be tested on their memory. To do this, the experimenter tells the participants that they are going to be participating in a reaction time test to see how quickly they can make different kinds of judgments about each of a series of words that will be presented to them, and they are not told that they will be tested for memory of the words. These instructions to the subjects are called

• A) a pilot test.
• B) an orienting task.
• C) intentional learning instructions.
• D) priming.

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