In Slameka and Graf's (1978) study, some participants read word pairs, while other participants had to fill in the blank letters of the second word in a pair with a word related to the first word. The latter group performed better on a later memory task, illustrating the
A) spacing effect.
B) generation effect.
C) cued recall effect.
D) multiple trace hypothesis.

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The result of the second group performing better on the memory task suggests the generation effect, where actively generating the second word enhances memory retention compared to simply reading it.

In Slameka and Graf's (1978) Study, Some Participants Read Word