A Participant Studied the Following Word Pairs: Reptile-Snake, Reptile-Turtle, Reptile-Lizard

question 181

Multiple Choice

A participant studied the following word pairs: reptile-snake, reptile-turtle, reptile-lizard, amphibian-frog, amphibian-salamander, and amphibian-newt. Then, the participant practiced recalling only the amphibian-salamander pair using the prompt: "amphibian-sala_____." Sometime later, the participant was given a memory test of the words he had originally studied. Of these, which word would be most likely forgotten?

• A)salamander
• B)frog
• C)turtle
• D)lizard

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