Marian and Neisser (2000) conducted a study in which Russian ...

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Marian and Neisser (2000) conducted a study in which Russian immigrants to the United States were given autobiographical memory interviews.
 
  They found language-dependent recall; that is, when prompted in
   Russian, they recalled more Russian than English memories. When prompted in English, they recalled more
   U.S. memories. In a second study, the researchers looked for the source of this effect  they were interested in whether this language-dependent recall was more dependent on the language of the cue-word, or on the
   language of the interview itself. They found that:
   a) language of the cue words played a larger role in language-dependent recall than did interview language
   b) language of the interview played a larger role in language-dependent recall than did cue-word language
   c) cue-word language and interview language were equally important in language-dependent recall
   d) cue words were more important in producing early memories; interview language was more important in
   producing later memories

Question 2

You and your friend, Dani, go on some adventure vacation every summer. She is trying to get you to remember an episode when you went to Maine. What of the following will serve as the best cue for memory retrieval?
 
  a) Do you remember what happened on July 11, 2007?
   b) Do you remember what happened when we went rock climbing?
   c) Do you remember the vacation we took at Acadia National Park?
   d) Do you remember when we went on vacation together?

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: b

Answer to Question 2

Answer: b