Two Students Took a Memory Test That Involved 20 Nouns

Multiple Choice

Two students took a memory test that involved 20 nouns shown sequentially on a TV monitor. Mallory tried to think of rhymes for each word as it appeared on the monitor; Bailey 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) Mallory will have better recall of the words because she used semantic encoding.
B) both students should have equivalent recall of the words. ​
C) Bailey will have better recall of the words because she used semantic encoding. ​
D) Bailey will have poorer recall of the words because she used structural encoding. ​