You are conducting a study on the organization of information in long-term memory. In the study, participants are told to say the first word that comes to their mind in response to the stimulus words "day," "woods," and "time." Many participants responded "night," "trees," and "clock." In your write-up of the study, you note that the participants' responses seem to support:
A)interference theory.
B)the notion of the serial position effect.
C)mood congruence.
D)the semantic network model.

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The semantic network model suggests that concepts in memory are organized into interconnected networks based on their meanings. The fact that many participants responded with related words such as "night" and "trees" supports this model. This suggests that the participants are accessing related concepts based on their semantic connections in memory.

You Are Conducting a Study on the Organization of Information