The Experiment for Which People Were Asked to Make Fame

question 55

Multiple Choice

The experiment for which people were asked to make fame judgments for both famous and non-famous names (and for which Sebastian Weissdorf was one of the names to be remembered) illustrated the effect of __________ on memory.

• A) repeated rehearsal of distinctive names
• B) source misattributions
• C) encoding specificity
• D) schemas

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Definitions:

Experimental Group

In scientific research, the group of subjects who receive the treatment or intervention being tested, as opposed to a control group.

Control Group

In experimental research, a group of subjects that does not receive the experimental treatment and is compared to the group that does, to measure the effect of the treatment.

Reversal Design

A method in experimental analysis where an intervention is introduced, removed, and then reintroduced to determine its effect on behavior.