A Participant Is Asked to Memorize a Series of Word

Multiple Choice

A participant is asked to memorize a series of word pairs,including the pair "heavy-light." The participant is asked a series of questions: "Was 'lamp' one of the words you saw? Was 'candle' one of the words? Was 'spark' one of the words? Was 'light' one of the words?" The participant answers "no" to each of these questions,probably because

A) the learning context does not provide adequate support for perceptual encoding.
B) the learning context does relatively little to encourage deep processing.
C) what was memorized was the idea of "light" as a description of weight,not "light" as illumination.
D) the learning context led the participant to think in terms of opposites,while the test context led the participant to think in terms of semantic associates.