After reading a positive story about the function of older adults’ memory, 80-year-old Marjorie scored well on a memory test. She unconsciously used a strategy known as

a. semantic enhancement.
b. semantic obfuscation.
c. semantic meandering.
d. semantic clustering.


Answer: d

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