Question

In one study described in the textbook, Dewar and colleagues (2012) examined participants' retention of newly-learned material. Some participants experienced a 15-minute period of waking rest after learning the material. Other participants played a game after learning. The authors concluded that the waking-rest participants outperformed the games participants because:________.

Answer 1

Answer: the rest helped encoding

Explanation:

The participants who carried out the waking rest could perform better because of they took out time to rest, where as the other group couldn't perform well because they've not rested.