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Several investigators have claimed that immediate free recall is a composite of output from two different storage systems—a short-term store (STS) and a long-term store (LTS). Free recall data and measures of STS were evaluated by having subjects report their rehearsals while lists of words were presented at a rate of one word every 1.25, 2.50, or 5.00 sec. The results support the conclusions that (a) arranging recall as a function of where an item was presented, rather than where it was rehearsed, is inappropriate to discussions of STS and LTS, and (b) computing measures of STS without both rehearsal and order of recall data yields a biased estimate of STS.
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This research was supported by a National Research Council of Canada postgraduate scholarship to the author
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Brodie, D.A. Free recall measures of short-term store: Are rehearsal and order of recall data necessary?. Memory & Cognition 3, 653–662 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198231
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