Simcock and Hayne (2002) had young children put objects into an “incredible shrinking machine,” and when they returned a year later, ______.
a. only the older children remembered the machine
b. all of the children had suffered from childhood amnesia
c. the children with the largest short-term memory spans remembered the most objects
d. recalled objects if the words for those objects were in the vocabulary when they first used the machine
Ans: D
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