An orienting task is
a. a way of finding one's bearings in memorizing the solutions to mazes.
b. a series of graduated practice trials that allow the subject to get the feel of a new memory task.
c. a task that originated in Eastern cultures which clears the mind and increases memory performance.
d. a task used to try to control the kind(s) of memory encoding processes the subject applies while encoding new information.
D
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