In Directed Forgetting, Participants Are Asked to Forget Certain Items

question 46

Multiple Choice

In directed forgetting, participants are asked to forget certain items.This results in:

• A)ironically, enhanced memory for those items.
• B)participants cannot inhibit the to-be-forgotten items, resulting in greater recall of those items.
• C)participants do not follow the directions and forget all of the items.
• D)participants inhibit the to-be-forgotten items, resulting in less recall of those items.

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