You Participate in a Research Study, and the Researchers Ask

Multiple Choice

You participate in a research study, and the researchers ask you to study and remember a list of 10 bizarre sentences. Are you likely to do better on this task than you would if you had to recall a list of 10 ordinary sentences? Why or why not?

A) Maybe. It depends on each person's level of creativity
B) Yes. Bizarre ideas are almost always easy to remember because they are so unexpected.
C) No. If all the ideas are bizarre, then none of them stand out
D) No. People tend to perform about the same on these tests regardless of the bizarreness of the imagery