In an experiment by Endel Tulving and Donald Thomson that is described in the textbook, participants were given a list of word pairs to learn and told they only had to remember the second word of each pair
Later they were asked to either recognize any second word of a pair that appeared on a list presented to them, or to recall the second word after being given the first word of the pair. It was found that the participants were
a. better at recognizing the words from the list they generated.
b. better at recalling the second words after being provided with the first words.
c. equally successful at recognition and recall tasks.
d. better at recovering memories when the context for remembering was changed.
Answer: b. better at recalling the second words after being provided with the first words.
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