If you are presented with a list of 15 words, all of which have something in common, you are most likely participating in a study focusing on _____.
A) misinformation effects
B) the DRM procedure
C) imagination inflation
D) repression

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The DRM (Deese-Roediger-McDermott) procedure involves presenting words that are semantically related to a target word, but omitting the target word itself. Participants are then asked to recall all the words they remember hearing, and often falsely remember the target word as being on the list. Therefore, a list of 15 words that have something in common is likely a variation of this procedure, where the target word is not presented but the related words are, and participants may falsely remember the missing target word.

If You Are Presented with a List of 15 Words