Participants in a study using multiple trial learning and lists containing several different categories (e.g. ,animals,minerals)will spontaneously cluster their recall of items by these categories.Even when there appears to be no apparent relation (e.g. ,categories),participants still cluster items during recall.These consistent patterns in the order of recall are called
A)reality monitoring.
B)distributed learning.
C)retrospective memory.
D)organization of information.

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The consistent patterns in the order of recall (i.e., clustering of items) indicate that participants are organizing the information in their memory, which is known as the organization of information. This is a common finding in studies of multiple trial learning and list learning, where participants tend to group items together based on various categories or relationships, even when those categories are not explicitly provided by the experimenter. Therefore, the best choice is D) organization of information. A, B, and C are less relevant to this specific phenomenon.

Participants in a Study Using Multiple Trial Learning and Lists