Short-term retention of individual verbal items

Abstract

The investigation is concerned with individual items instead of lists. "Forgetting over intervals measured in seconds was found. The course of retention after a single presentation was related to a statistical model. Forgetting was found to progress at differential rates dependent on the amount of controlled rehearsal of the stimulus. A portion of the improvement in recall with repetitions was assigned to serial learning within the item, but a second kind of learning was also found." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1959 American Psychological Association.