Jenkins and Russell (1952) presented a list of words like "chair, apple, dish, shoe, cherry, sofa" to participants. In a test, participants recalled the words in a different order than the order in which they were originally presented. This result occurred because of the
A) tendency of objects in the same category to become organized.
B) effect of proactive interference.
C) way objects like dishes and shoes are encoded visually.
D) way the phonological loop reorganizes information based on sound during rehearsal.

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The result occurred because of the tendency of objects in the same category to become organized, which is a phenomenon related to how our memory tends to group similar items together to make them easier to remember, known as categorical (or semantic) clustering.

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