Students often use fancy report covers,exciting fonts,and vivid pictures on the covers of their term papers to try to impress their teacher.If their various strategies cause the teacher to have a more vivid memory of their individual paper,then they have succeeded in using __________ to influence the teacher's memory.
A) deep processing
B) decoy processing
C) interferent processing
D) shallow processing

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The concept being described here is shallow processing, which refers to processing information in a superficial or surface-level way. In this case, the students are using superficial strategies like fancy report covers and exciting fonts to try to make their papers stand out to the teacher. Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean that the content of their papers is any better than their peers'.

Students Often Use Fancy Report Covers,exciting Fonts,and Vivid Pictures on the Covers