Taryn Was Given a List of Words as Part of a Memory

question 230

Multiple Choice

Taryn was given a list of words as part of a memory test that included: "dog, pail, and hate." Later, she recalled these words as: "pup, bucket, and loathe." Taryn's errors in recall suggest that she had encoded the original word list

• A) proactively.
• B) semantically.
• C) phonemically.
• D) structurally.

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