In a Memory Experiment,participants Were Shown a Form That Could

question 23

Multiple Choice

In a memory experiment,participants were shown a form that could be interpreted in more than one way.Half the participants were told,"Here is a picture of the sun." The other participants were told,"Here is a picture of a ship's steering wheel." Some time later,participants were asked to draw the exact visual form they had seen earlier.The data indicate that

• A)participants' visual memories were distinct from their verbal memories,so participants were uninfluenced by the labels.
• B)participants' drawings were biased in a fashion that reflected the labels they had been given earlier.
• C)the labels had called attention to the ambiguity of the figures,leading to improved memory accuracy.
• D)participants were able to remember only the labels,not the drawings.

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