The von Restorff effect works because:
a. the isolated item always occurs in a critical serial position.
b. mood congruence can account for why we remember off-color or offensive words.
c. encoding specificity applies to representation as well as encoding.
d. distinctiveness implies that we search for the unique meaning for each item.
Ans: d
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