Imagine that you are interested in whether viewing a specific film impacts perfo
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Question
Imagine that you are interested in whether viewing a specific film impacts performance on a later task. You show one group of people a movie depicting a horse race, and another group of people a movie depicting a horse eating an apple on a farm. You think that if you give both groups of people the jumbled-up word “cersa”, the people who watched the horse race will be more likely to re-arrange the letters to make the word “races” compared to people who watched neither video. In contrast, you think the people who watched the horse on a farm will be more likely to re-arrange the letters to make the word “acres” compared to people who watched neither video. This task is a test of ___ memory.
A. implicit
B.explicit
C.episodic
D.working
Explanation / Answer
Memory can be classified into : Implicit,explicit, episodic, and working memory. In the above task, it is a test of Working Memory because it takes into account immediate events that have just taken place in order to make present decisions. Thus, when the individual is required to re-arrange letters, the working memory would interpret it in terms of the movie that it had just watched.