An Investigator Asks Some Participants to Count the Number of Letters

Multiple Choice

An investigator asks some participants to count the number of letters in each of the names on a long list of Russian rivers. She asks other participants to pronounce each river's name and asks, for instance, "Does it rhyme with Vienna" (for Lenna) . She asks a third group of participants to place the river on a map and to observe into which larger body of water it flows. Which approach memory concept is this investigator most likely interested in

A) context-dependent memory
B) schemas
C) state-dependent memory
D) elaborative encoding