Question

When Ashley visited Central Park, she saw a group of swans in the pond. All of the swans were white except one. When she recounted her visit to Central Park, she described only the black swan. Which feature of memory encoding did Ashley experience?

A. shallow level of processing
B. self-referencing
C. organization
D. distinctiveness

Answer 1

D) I believe because, she distinctively remembers seeing the different colored swan because they are usually white. 

Answer 2

Answer: Distinctiveness

Step-by-step explanation:

Distinctiveness can be defined as a distinct quality of any object or organism which makes it different from other organism or object.

In case of memory encoding the information is converted from a short term memory to a long term memory.

The distinctive things are observed and remembered by the brain for a longer period of time as compared to the normal objects or things.

hence, the correct answer is option D