If you are trying to recall the concept "test anxiety" for your final psychology exam, you are more likely to mistakenly write "test nervousness" or "test worry" than "text anxiety" or "tent anxiety" because information for your psychology final is most likely stored in long-term memory
A) phonetically.
B) on the basis of visual images.
C) procedurally.
D) on the basis of meaning.

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The mistake of recalling "test anxiety" as "test nervousness" or "test worry" instead of phonetically similar but meaningfully different terms like "text anxiety" or "tent anxiety" suggests that information in long-term memory is stored based on meaning rather than sound, visual images, or procedures. This is why semantically related but phonetically different terms are more likely to be confused.

If You Are Trying to Recall the Concept "Test Anxiety