In a classic experiment on forgetting, college students learned lists of nonsense syllables. After studying, students in one group slept for eight hours and then were tested for memory of the lists. A second group stayed awake for eight hours after studying the lists. The results of the experiment revealed that
a. the group that slept performed better on the memory test.
b. the group that stayed awake performed better on the memory test.
c. both groups performed equally well on the memory tests.
d. neither group could remember any of the nonsense syllables after eight hours.
A
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