CONSTANCY OF MNEMONIC CAPACITY AS A FUNCTION OF TRIALS IN FREE‐RECALL LEARNING
S. BENNETT, Peter Davies · British Journal of Psychology · 1973
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.