Cards (4)

  • when participants did the task immediately, recalling from STM, they tended to do worse with acoustically similar words
  • when they recalled the list after a time interval of 20 minutes, recalling from LTM, they did worse with the sematically similar words
  • acoustically similar words were harder to recall because participants got confused as they sounded the same and they were unable to separate them from one another
  • recall for semantically similar words was much harder because the words get jumbled up in our heads