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REPETITION AND IMMEDIATE MEMORY
Author(s) -
DALRYMPLEALFORD E. C.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1967.tb01057.x
Subject(s) - repetition (rhetorical device) , numerical digit , psychology , memory span , serial learning , arithmetic , carry (investment) , cognitive psychology , audiology , cognition , working memory , recall , mathematics , neuroscience , philosophy , linguistics , finance , economics , medicine
Subjects were presented with digit‐combinations one digit at a time, in such a manner that each succeeding digit was presented only after all the preceding digits had been repeated by the subject in correct order. The number of digits the subjects could ‘carry’ in general did not differ from their memory spans. This together with the distribution of serial positions at which repetition broke down is taken as evidence for the view that repetition restores but does not further strengthen memory traces.