Dr. roberts conducts a study in which one group of participants counts the number of syllables in each member of a list of twenty words, and the second group creates stories from the same set of words. when later asked to write down as many of the previously seen words as possible, the second group of participants recalls more words than the first group. this study shows the importance of the pragmatics of language the pragmatics of language semantic encoding semantic encoding maintenance rehearsal maintenance rehearsal convergent thinking convergent thinking shallow processing