Keeping a Diary Is Useful for Autobiographical Memory

question 59

Multiple Choice

Keeping a diary is useful for autobiographical memory.Smith et al. (2011) examined the effects of texting while studying.They found that because:

• A)recognition performance was higher in the distracted group because they avoided the inhibitory effects of self-directed forgetting.
• B)recognition performance was much higher in the non-distracted group than in the distracted group.
• C)recognition performance was higher in the distracted group, but recall performance was higher in the non-distracted group.
• D)students refused to participate in the undistracted condition encoding.

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