Author Question: Chapter 5 discusses a study by Mary Ann Foley and her coauthors, in which participants listened to a ... (Read 166 times)

kshipps · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Chapter 5 discusses a study by Mary Ann Foley and her coauthors, in which participants listened to a list of concrete nouns.

Students in one group were told to visualize each object; students in another group were told to imagine themselves using the object. One important finding was that
a. people remembered more nouns in the visualize condition.
b. people often imagined themselves using the object, even if they were in the visualize condition.
c. people apparently follow a researcher's instructions quite carefully.
d. there was no evidence for the self-reference effect.

Question 2

In general, self-reference instructions

a. enhance memory in the laboratory, but not in real-life settings.
b. enhance short-term memory, but not long-term memory.
c. enhance memory in a wide variety of situations.
d. are actually no more effective than instructions to use shallow processing.