Shamithia is participating in a short-term memory experiment. She has been given a list of words and is asked to recall them after several minutes. One of the words on the list is CAT. Shamithia is most likely to incorrectly recall this word as:
A) RAT
B) CAN
C) KITTY
D) CUT

Question

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CAT and RAT have similar phonetic sounds and letters, making it likely for Shamithia to mix them up in her memory. The other options are less likely as they do not share as many phonetic similarities with CAT.

Shamithia Is Participating in a Short-Term Memory Experiment