Which Statement Is Accurate Regarding the Number-Word Pairs Experiment Done

question 61

Multiple Choice

Which statement is accurate regarding the number-word pairs experiment done by Nelson (1971) ?

• A) Participants remembered better the number-word pairs that were semantically related than the number-word pairs that were phonologically related.
• B) When participants were cued with the number and asked to recall the related word,their left prefrontal cortex became active;when they were cued with the word and asked to recall the related number,their right prefrontal cortex became active.
• C) Despite the fact that participants were unable to recall some of the words paired with the numbers,if a new word was paired with the number,they were less likely to recall it than a word paired with a new number.
• D) Participants were best able to recall words that were part of word-number pairs at the beginning or the end of the list read to them.

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