Smith and Moynan (2008) Were Interested in Testing the Failure-To-Rehearse

question 20

Multiple Choice

Smith and Moynan (2008) were interested in testing the failure-to-rehearse hypothesis.They asked participants to study some neutral categories and some emotional ones.They found that:

• A)in the "forget" condition, participants were unable to inhibit category names and their recall was successful.
• B)in the "control" condition, the instructions did not lead to better recall of category names.
• C)recall of category names was lower in the "forget" condition than in the control condition, especially for emotional categories.
• D)repression occurred only when the participants were subjected to traumatic conditions.

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