An Experimenter Reads a List of 30 Words to a Group

question 6

Multiple Choice

An experimenter reads a list of 30 words to a group of participants at the rate of 1 word per second.This is immediately followed by a free-recall test.A second group of participants hears the same 30 words presented at the faster rate of 2 words per second.We should expect that the group hearing the slower presentation will show improved memory performance for the

• A)pre-recency portion of the list,but there will be no impact on the recency effect.
• B)words at the end of the list and diminished performance for the pre-recency portion of the list.
• C)entire list.
• D)words at the list's end,but there will be no improvement for the words earlier in the list.

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Dependent Variable

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