The Effects of Within-Sequence Acoustic Similarity on the Short-Term Retention of Consonants and Words.

Marcer, D.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1977

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The Effects of Within-Sequence Acoustic Similarity on the Short-Term Retention of Consonants and Words

Marcer, D.; And Others

British Journal of Psychology, 68 pt4, 463-5, Nov 77

Compares the rates of forgetting of five-item sequences of acoustically similar and dissimilar consonants and words in the absence of proactive and retroactive interference in order to test whether within sequence similarity rather than stimulus length would have a greater influence on retention. (Author/RK)

Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Experiments, Hypothesis Testing, Memory, Psychological Studies, Tables (Data), Verbal Stimuli

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