An Orienting Task Is

An orienting task is

A) a way of finding one's bearings in memorizing the solutions to mazes.
B) a series of graduated practice trials that allow the subject to get the feel of a new memory task.
C) a task that originated in Eastern cultures which clears the mind and increases memory performance.
D) a task used to try to control the kind(s) of memory encoding processes the subject applies while encoding new information.