Question

Jeannie loves to dance, having taken ballet for many years. She is now learning salsa dancing. Although the movements are very different from the dances she is familiar with, she has found a successful memory strategy of linking the new dance information to her previous experiences as a dancer and to her own affection for dance. This strategy suggests reliance on:

a. the self-reference effect.
b. a mass practice effect.
c. the integrative experience effect.
d. semantic memory.

Answer 1

a. the self-reference effect.

Step-by-step explanation:

This strategy suggests reliance on the self-reference effect. The way Jeannie is storing this new information to the previous ballet information she had is called self-reference. She has efficiently encoded the new stimulus to remember it. She has related the new memories with her previous knowledge of ballet and her affection for dancing. This leads to a better retrieval of the memories. Human beings tend to better remember things that are related to the self.