Recall of Words of High and Low Familiarity in Mixed and Unmixed Lists
Raymond S. Corteen · Psychological Reports · 1970
In an experiment on the effect of changes in familiarity on the free recall of words, it was found that unfamiliar words are recalled relatively more frequently when presented in mixed lists of familiar and unfamiliar words than when they are presented in unmixed lists. A simple information processing model initially suggested to explain this phenomenon is not confirmed by all of the results.