The difference, the researchers posited, might have to do with memories of past consumption. For example, studies ____61___that people push away from the dinner table sooner when they’re asked to describe in detail____62___ they ate earlier for lunch.
So the researchers tested the memory capacity of undergraduates. The students then ____63___(view)a repeating series of three classic paintings…like The Starry Night, American Gothic, and The Scream…or listened and re-listened to a series ____64__ three pop songs…or three pieces of classical music.
Throughout the test, the participants were ____65____(intermit) asked to rate their experience on a scale of zero to ten. And the ____66__(good)a participant scored in the memory test, the faster they got bored. “We found that people ____67___larger capacities remembered more about the music or art, which led to them getting tired of the music ____68___art more quickly. So remembering more details actually made the participants feel like they’d experienced the music or art more often.”
The findings suggest that marketers could manipulate our desire for their products by____69___ ways to distract us and keep us from fully remembering our experiences. We could also trick ourselves into ____70___(eat) less junk food by immersing ourselves in the memory of a previous snack.
61 show/describe/suggest 62 what 63 viewed 64of 65 intermittently
66 better 67 with 68 or 69 figuring out 70 eating
