When test subjects are asked to recall a list of letters they have just seen, the mistakes they make often involve letters that sound similar to the displayed letters. These mistakes are probably due to
A) retrograde amnesia.
B) acoustic encoding.
C) retroactive interference during transfer from echoic to iconic memory.
D) the serial position effect.
E) the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.

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The mistakes made by test subjects in recalling letters that sound similar to the displayed letters suggest that they have encoded the letters based on their sound, indicating an acoustic encoding process.

When Test Subjects Are Asked to Recall a List of Letters