Two Students Took a Memory Test Where They Had to Remember

question 46

Multiple Choice

Two students took a memory test where they had to remember 20 words that were flashed on a screen.Mallory tried to think of rhymes for each word as it appeared on the monitor.Bailey tried to think of ways each word could be used in a sentence.What would you predict based on Craik and Lockhart's levels-of-processing theory

• A) Mallory will have better recall of the words because she used semantic encoding. 
• B) Bailey will have better recall of the words because she used semantic encoding. 
• C) Bailey will have poorer recall of the words because she used structural encoding. 
• D) Both students should have equivalent recall of the words.

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