At the Beginning of Yesterday's Sociology Class, Dr

Multiple Choice

At the beginning of yesterday's sociology class, Dr. Smith showed highly graphic pictures of naked men and women to illustrate the different forms that pornography can take. After this 5-minute slide show, Dr. Smith gave a 45-minute lecture of pornography and modern society. However, immediately after the class ended, the students had no memory of the lecture--all they could recall were the sexually explicit photographs shown at the start of class. This impaired memory is illustrative of:

A) the anterograde amnesic effect
B) the retrograde amnesic effect
C) the von Restorff effect
D) the recency effect