Amanda is asked to study a list of words and recall them afterwards. She ends up having an easier time remembering the word set

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Amanda is asked to study a list of words and recall them afterwards. She ends up having an easier time remembering the word set

"cat; notebook; desk" than the word set "void; inherent; hypothetical". This illustrates _______.

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borishaifa [10] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-21T06:18:39+03:00

Answer:

The answer is the concreteness effect.

Explanation:

This effect demonstrates that concrete nouns (tangible objects) are more easily remembered than abstract nouns.

The explanation for this phenomenon involves the dual-coding theory. This means that, when presented with concrete nouns, a person also accesses the right hemishphere of his brain, which is responsible for processing images.