Keeping a diary is useful for autobiographical memory.Smith et al. (2011) examined the effects of texting while studying.They found that because:
A)recognition performance was higher in the distracted group because they avoided the inhibitory effects of self-directed forgetting.
B)recognition performance was much higher in the non-distracted group than in the distracted group.
C)recognition performance was higher in the distracted group, but recall performance was higher in the non-distracted group.
D)students refused to participate in the undistracted condition encoding.

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Smith et al. (2011) found that recognition performance was much higher in the non-distracted group than in the distracted group, indicating that texting while studying negatively affected memory performance. There is no evidence in the study to support choices A, C, or D.

Keeping a Diary Is Useful for Autobiographical Memory