In a Research Study Presented in Your Text, Participants Who

Multiple Choice

In a research study presented in your text, participants who learned a word list in the evening before going to sleep and were tested in the morning had better recall of the word list than those who learned the material in the morning and tested in the evening. This research supports the idea that with respect to memory, sleep can be described as serving a(n) ______ function.

A) consolidation
B) protective
C) encoding
D) restorative
E) conservation