In research that is described in the textbook,participants tried to learn lists of letters under two conditions.In one condition,each pair of letters was separated by two digits that had to be read.In the other condition,the first pair had four digits and the last pair had zero digits.What did the researchers discover?
A)poorer memory for the early items on the list when those items had been made more separate.
B)better memory for the items on the list with proportional spacing.
C)that the recency effect arose because the last few items were not very distinctive.
D)that making items distinctive made little difference in the performance of the participants.

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The researchers discovered that participants had better memory for the items on the list with proportional spacing, meaning the spacing between each item on the list was equal. They found that this resulted in more efficient encoding and retrieval processes.

In Research That Is Described in the Textbook,participants Tried to Learn