When You Read the Word "Slice" on a List, You

question 23

Multiple Choice

When you read the word "slice" on a list, you think of it as something you do to a golf ball. Later when someone asks you which word on the list means the same thing as "piece," you cannot remember. Why?

• A) proactive interference
• B) encoding specificity principle
• C) depth-of-processing principle
• D) state-dependent memory

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