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