findings

• 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