Wei Dong was asked to memorize a long list of words that included "ship,effort,professor,and inquire." He later recalled these words as "boat,work,teacher,and question." This best illustrates the impact of
A) shallow processing.
B) the spacing effect.
C) implicit memory.
D) semantic processing.

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Wei Dong's original list had a semantic relation as all the words were related to education or learning, and he recalled the words using their semantic meaning rather than their superficial characteristics, indicating deep semantic processing.

Wei Dong Was Asked to Memorize a Long List of Words