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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The participant is most likely to forget "frog" because of the retrieval practice effect, where practicing a subset of material (amphibian-salamander) can lead to improved memory for the practiced information but can also cause forgetting of related, but unpracticed, information (such as "frog").

A Participant Studied the Following Word Pairs: Reptile-Snake,reptile-Turtle,reptile-Lizard,amphibian-Frog,amphibian-Salamander,and Amphibian-Newt