An investigator asks some participants to count the number of letters in each of the names on a long list of Russian rivers. She asks other participants to pronounce each river's name and asks, for instance, "Does it rhyme with Vienna?" (for Lenna). She asks a third group of participants to place the river on a map and to observe into which larger body of water it flows. Which approach memory concept is this investigator most likely interested in?

a. context-dependent memory
b. schemas
c. state-dependent memory
d. elaborative encoding
Moderate


d. elaborative encoding
Moderate

Psychology

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