People in an experiment read a passage and then are asked to identify a list of statements that the passage may or may not have contained.The people are good at recognizing statements with the same meaning as the ones that they have heard,but they cannot identify the exact wording of these statements.This is due to ____.
A) chunking
B) dual-coding theory
C) inadequate rehearsal
D) semantic encoding

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This is due to semantic encoding, which involves encoding the meaning of information rather than the exact wording. People are able to recognize statements with the same meaning because they have encoded the semantic content of the passage, but may not remember the exact wording because they did not encode it as strongly.

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