Two students took a memory test that involved 20 nouns shown sequentially on a TV monitor. Mallory tried to think of rhymes for each word as it appeared on the monitor; Bailey tried to think of ways each word could be used in a sentence. Based on Craik and Lockhart's levels-of-processing theory, you should predict that
A)Mallory will have better recall of the words because she used semantic encoding.
B)both students should have equivalent recall of the words.
C)Bailey will have better recall of the words because she used semantic encoding.
D)Bailey will have poorer recall of the words because she used structural encoding.

Question

Two students took a memory test that involved 20 nouns shown sequentially on a TV monitor. Mallory tried to think of rhymes for each word as it appeared on the monitor; Bailey tried to think of ways each word could be used in a sentence. Based on Craik and Lockhart's levels-of-processing theory, you should predict that ​
A)Mallory will have better recall of the words because she used semantic encoding.
B)both students should have equivalent recall of the words. ​
C)Bailey will have better recall of the words because she used semantic encoding. ​
D)Bailey will have poorer recall of the words because she used structural encoding. ​

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Bailey will have better recall because semantic encoding, which involves thinking about the meaning and use of the words, typically leads to better memory retention than rhyming (phonological encoding) as used by Mallory.

Two Students Took a Memory Test That Involved 20 Nouns