Short-Term Retention as a Function of Item Value
Kenneth E. Lloyd · Perceptual and Motor Skills · 1964
Ss stored and recalled unrelated words which differed in their penny value (Group I), or which had the same value (Group II). The number of words being stored at any one time was also varied. Recall errors decreased regularly from low to high value words in Group I, and remained relatively constant in Group II. Errors varied directly with the storage load at all word values.