Which of the following ordered relation effects reflects people being slower at judging the relationship of 2 memory traces the more similar their content is to one another?
a) semantic congruity effects
b) serial position effects
c) semantic distance effects
d) semantic satiation effects
Answer: c) semantic distance effects
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