Jenkins and Russell 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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Participants tend to organize words into categories (e.g., furniture, fruit) during recall, which leads to recalling them in a different order than presented.

Jenkins and Russell Presented a List of Words Like "Chair