In an Experiment,subjects Were Much More Likely to Accurately Recognize

Multiple Choice

In an experiment,subjects were much more likely to accurately recognize the word "pearl" from a previously presented list of words if the experimenter had initially presented the word within the following sentence,"Oysters produce pearls" rather than in the sentence "Pearl rhymes with curl." The subjects' better remembering of the word pearl when it was initially presented to them semantically rather than as a rhyme is consistent with the ____.

A) encoding specificity principle
B) syntactical specificity principle
C) cued priming principle
D) None of the above