Two Students Took a Memory Test

question 299

Multiple Choice

Two students took a memory test.Twenty nouns were shown sequentially on a TV monitor.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.Based on Craik and Lockhart's levels-of-processing theory,you should predict that

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

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