In a classic study by Thomson and Tulving (1970),participants encoded a series of weakly related word pairs (e.g. ,glue-chair).Later,they were tested via cued recall.They were to recall the right-hand member of each pair (chair,in the present example),given either the weakly related word,or a very strong associate (e.g. ,table).What happened in this study?

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Originally encoded weak associates were better cues than the strong associates because the context in which the information was encoded (the weak association) was more effective for retrieval than introducing a new, stronger association not present during encoding.

In a Classic Study by Thomson and Tulving (1970),participants Encoded