Two Students Took a Memory Test

Multiple Choice

Two students took a memory test.Twenty nouns were shown sequentially on a TV monitor.Mary tried to think of rhymes for each word as it appeared on the monitor.Brenda tried to think of ways each word could be used in a sentence.Based on Craik and Lockhart's levels-of-processing theory, you should predict that

A) Mary will have better recall of the words because she used semantic encoding.
B) both students should have equivalent recall of the words.
C) Brenda will have better recall of the words because she used semantic encoding.
D) Brenda will have poorer recall of the words because she used structural encoding.