Your Friend Has Just Participated in a Memory Experiment and Tells

question 54

Multiple Choice

Your friend has just participated in a memory experiment and tells you about it.In this experiment,your friend had to look at a number of sentences and a number of pictures.After studying the sentences and pictures,your friend was shown pairs of two pictures or two sentences and then asked to point to which picture or sentence she remembered seeing before.Which test is your friend likely to do better on?

• A) She will perform better on the verbal test because memory for verbal information is better than memory for visual information.
• B) She will perform better on the visual test because memory for visual information is better than memory for verbal information.
• C) She will perform similarly on both tests because memory for both visual and verbal information is similar.
• D) She will perform really poorly on the verbal test because the visual information will interfere too much with her memory for the verbal information.

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