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Miller, Leonie M.; Roodenrys, Steven – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
Studies of the effect of word frequency in the serial recall task show that lists of high-frequency words are better recalled than lists of low-frequency words; however, when high- and low-frequency words are alternated within a list, there is no difference in the level of recall for the two types of words, and recall is intermediate between lists…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Speech, Word Frequency, Short Term Memory