288888388. 56789101112 Borlal Position At this point, you should be familiar with graphs like the one here. It is a serial position curve. Subjects were asked to remember a random list of nouns. And then they were asked to recall the list in order, immediately. Some researchers argue that the dip in the middle of the list reflects the probability that some items drop out of memory (or never make it in there in the first place). Others argue that the dip in the middle reflects interference, that the words in the middle are competing with one another for recall. Here is a simple experiment designed to test these alternatives: It is exactly the same as the one described, except that subjects can recall the list in any order. We can still plot the data in the same way, just marking words as recalled correctly if they were actually on the list, even if recalled in the wrong place. For example, if the word "dog" was on the list in position 6, but it was said in position 5, we'd count that as a hit for the word from position 6. What pattern of results in this experiment would support the interference account more than the 'absent from memory' account?
A. The results would look exactly as they do in the original experiment, and this would support the interference account.
B. In this experiment, the black dots at the beginning of the curve would have even higher probabilities than they already do, supporting the interference account.
C. In this experiment, more of the black dots at the end of the curve would have low probabilities, supporting the interference account.
D. In this experiment, more of the black dots in the middle of the curve would have high probabilities, supporting the interference account.