Free recall and ordering of trigrams
Edward C. Carterette · PsycEXTRA Dataset · 1963
To assess the role of intralist similarity in the learning and retention Ss were shown 12 3consonant trigrams. One list used 4 different letters (L4, high intralist similarity), the other containing 12 different letters (L12, low intralist similarity). 4 groups of 20 Ss were tested; one in free recall, and another learned only the order of the syllables, for each of the L4 and L12 lists. Conclusions were that (a) free recall for L4 was higher than for L12 early in learning but lower on later trials and (b) L12 had uniformly higher ordering scores that L4. (Author)