In an experiment by Endel Tulving and Donald Thomson that is described in the textbook,participants were given a list of word pairs to learn and were instructed to remember the second word of each pair only.Later they were asked to either recognize any second word of a pair that appeared on a list presented to them,or to recall the second word after being given the first word of the pair.What were the findings?
A)They were better at recognizing the words from the list they generated.
B)They were better at recalling the second words after being provided with the first words.
C)They were equally successful at recognition and recall tasks.
D)They were better at recovering memories when the context for remembering was changed.

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Tulving and Thomson found that the participants were better at recalling the second words after being provided with the first words, rather than recognizing them from a list. This suggests that the task of recall is more difficult than the task of recognition.

In an Experiment by Endel Tulving and Donald Thomson That