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Compared to the simultaneous condition, the serial condition of the experiment would be more likely to cause: A.a primacy effect. B.a state dependency effect. C.a misinformation effect. D.a dual-coding effect. - ANS - The passage states that the SERIAL condition had participants presented with objects one at a time. The SIMULTANEOUS condition had subjects presented with object all at once. A. The primacy effect states that subjects remember objects that are presented first. The primacy effect is specifically talking about order of events. The researchers change the procedure such that instead of placing the objects in a box, the participants have to recall all the objects that they have seen during training. According to the spreading of activation theory, which type of memory error is most likely? A.Making source monitoring errors regarding the location of the training objects B.Poorer memory for the training objects seen at the later points in the experiment C.Selective forgetting of the training objects that were placed in the center of the box D.Recalling objects that were not presented but are from the same category as the training objects - ANS - Spreading activation theory says that when a concept is activated, the activation spreads to concepts that are semantically or associatively related to it.