Kornell (2009) asked participants to study difficult GRE-type words and their more common synonyms (e.g., effulgent: brilliant).Kornell found that:
A)students who were made to distribute their study remembered many more vocabulary terms than those who were made to mass their study.
B)students who were made to mass their study remembered many more vocabulary terms than those who were made to distribute their study.
C)students who choose to mass their study did better than students who were forced to mass their study.
D)students who choose to distribute their study did better than students who were forced to distribute their study.

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Kornell found that students who were made to distribute their study (i.e., study each word once and then move on to the next) remembered many more vocabulary terms than those who were made to mass their study (i.e., study each word repeatedly before moving on to the next). Therefore, choice A is the correct answer.

Kornell (2009) Asked Participants to Study Difficult GRE-Type Words and Their