Chapter 5 describes a study by Viorica Marian and Caitlin Fausey, who studied English-Spanish bilinguals. They presented two stories in English and two stories in Spanish
Then the researchers asked questions about the stories, sometimes in English and sometimes in Spanish. The results showed that
a. there were no significant differences between conditions, demonstrating that encoding-specificity effect is weak.
b. people were more accurate in the English-English condition, compared to the Spanish-Spanish condition.
c. people were more accurate in the Spanish-Spanish condition, compared to the English-English condition.
d. people were more accurate when the language of the stories matched the language of the questions.
Ans: d
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