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• What type of information did Bahrick ask participants to retrieve?

  Names of their ex-classmates
• How does Bahrick's study differ from other memory studies?

  It uses personal life information instead of artificial stimuli
• Why might participants put less effort into memorizing artificial stimuli?

  Because it is not relevant to their everyday lives
• What is meant by high ecological validity in Bahrick's study?

  Findings likely generalize to real-life situations
• What limitation did Bahrick face regarding the control of extraneous variables?

  He couldn't control how participants learned the information
• How do extraneous variables affect the validity of Bahrick's results?

  They may impact how accurately participants remembered names