Two students took a memory test that involved 20 nouns shown sequentially on a TV monitor. Mallory tried to think of rhymes for each word as it appeared on the monitor; Bailey tried to think of ways each word could be used in a sentence. Based on Craik and Lockhart's levels-of-processing theory, you should predict that
a. Mallory will have better recall of the words because she used semantic encoding.
b. both students should have equivalent recall of the words.
c. Bailey will have better recall of the words because she used semantic encoding.
d. Bailey will have poorer recall of the words because she used structural encoding.
C
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a.) Show long-term abilities to keep that weight off, and in fact lose more weight. b.) May experience a rebound effect which results in a net weight gain c.) Recover completely from any symptoms of depression that they may have experienced, and find general happiness I their lives. d.) Experience a great amount of shame when they encounter people who comment on their recent weight loss.
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a. measures what it is designed to measure. b. compares its results against established standards of performance. c. produces the same results from one time to the next. d. predicts other criteria of the personality trait in question.