Rogers and his colleagues (1977) found that subjects shown 40 adjectives one at a time were much more likely subsequently to remember words that:

a. were not connected with the question ‘Does it describe you?’
b. occur most frequently in written language
c. are concrete rather than abstract
d. were connected with the question ‘Does it describe you?’
e. occurred most often in current popular song lyrics


Ans: d

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