In One Experiment, Dr

question 187

Multiple Choice

In one experiment, Dr. Flaherty's participants learned one word list, then a second list containing similar, but different, words. Participants then recalled as many words as they could from either list. Finally, participants were given a fragment-completion task involving those words from the first list which they could not remember. Which of the following is NOT one of Dr. Flaherty's research goals?

• A) to chart the time course of the decay of memories
• B) to measure the extent to which new memories interfere with old ones
• C) to explore whether participants have some implicit memory for items they appear to have forgotten
• D) to determine whether new memories completely overwrite old ones