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CONSTANCY OF MNEMONIC CAPACITY AS A FUNCTION OF TRIALS IN FREE‐RECALL LEARNING
Author(s) -
BENNETT S.,
DAVIES P.
Publication year - 1973
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.2044-8295.1973.tb01323.x
Subject(s) - mnemonic , psychology , free recall , recall , cognitive psychology , recall test , function (biology) , interval (graph theory) , evolutionary biology , biology , mathematics , combinatorics
An experiment is described on the free‐recall learning of a list of high‐frequency words. The results are consistent with the view that the number of ‘mnemonic units' or ‘chunks' recalled remains constant over trials and over a retention interval of one week. The results are discussed in terms of Miller's (1956 a, b, c ) unitization hypothesis and in terms of the idea that two retrieval processes operate in memory.