At the Start of His 90-Minute Lecture on Child Development

Multiple Choice

At the start of his 90-minute lecture on child development, Professor Mentyl shows his class a 10 minute home video of his own young children playing with their pet dog. When students later take an exam on this lecture, Professor Mentyl finds that the students didn't remember the details of the critical child development theories that were the focus of the above lecture. This effect has come to be known as

A) the spacing effect
B) the seductive detail effect
C) the generation effect
D) verbal overshadowing