Jerry Is Asked to Think of a Word That Rhymes

question 225

Multiple Choice

Jerry is asked to think of a word that rhymes with "motor." Jimmy is asked to think about how a motor works. The next day, both men are asked, "Hey, what was the word that you heard yesterday that rhymes with 'voter'?" _____ will be more likely to recall "motor" because _____.

• A)Jerry; rhyme judgments almost always result in better encoding than semantic judgments.
• B)Jerry; the encoding context matched the retrieval context.
• C)Jimmy; semantic judgments almost always result in better encoding than rhyme judgments.
• D)Jimmy; the retrieval context was sufficiently dissimilar from the encoding context.