Participants Are Asked to Judge Whether a String of Letters

Multiple Choice

Participants are asked to judge whether a string of letters forms a word in English. The first string they receive is the word VIOLIN. On a subsequent list of words, results show that the participants are substantially faster at answering "Yes" to the word PIANO than to the word TOILET or BASKET. Which concept does this result most clearly illustrate

A) episodic memory
B) state-dependent learning
C) the spacing effect
D) spreading activation