Students in One Study Had the Task of Trying to Recall

question 128

Multiple Choice

Students in one study had the task of trying to recall a list of 600 words.As they read the list,the students were asked to write down three other words closely related in meaning to each listed word.In a test given later,the words each student supplied were used as the memory cues to jog memory.The students were able to recall what percent of the original list of 600 words using these cues?

• A) 20 percent
• B) 45 percent
• C) 65 percent
• D) 90 percent

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