Question

In a memory study, participants are taught a word-learning strategy in a college classroom. Prior to entering the classroom, each participant is required to wait for ten minutes in the hallway outside the classroom. One week later, a researcher contacts them and asks them what they did while they were waiting. Which type of long-term memory were the researchers eliciting

Answer 1

Answer:

Episodic

Explanation:

Episodic memory focuses on everyday activities that a person experiences at a particular time and place in the past.

It is the ability to recollect what happened around an individual in the past.

In the given scenario participants in a study are required to what they did while waiting in the hallway a week ago.

The study is trying to elicit episodic long term memory.

The participants that have a good recollection of activities during that period have a good episodic memory