Two students took a memory test. Twenty nouns were 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. Which of the following should you predict based on Craik and Lockhart's levels-of-processing theory?

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Craik and Lockhart's levels-of-processing theory suggests that semantic encoding, or the meaning of information, leads to better recall than shallow encoding, such as structural encoding. Bailey's strategy of thinking of ways to use each word in a sentence better reflects semantic encoding compared to Mallory's strategy of thinking of rhymes. Therefore, Bailey should have better recall of the words.

Two Students Took a Memory Test