You are conducting a study on the organization of information in long-term memory. In the study, participants are told to say the first word that comes to their mind in response to the stimulus words day, woods, and time. Many participants respond "night," "trees," and "clock." In your write-up of the study, you note that the participants' responses seem to support:
A) interference theory.
B) the notion of the serial position effect.
C) mood congruence.
D) the semantic network model.

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The participants' responses suggest that they are organizing information in their long-term memory based on a semantic network model, where related concepts are connected to one another. This is indicated by their tendency to respond with semantically related words (night for day, trees for woods, clock for time).

You Are Conducting a Study on the Organization of Information