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Free recall and subjective organization performance were studied as a function of various orders of presentation. Performance was enhanced by the consistent simultaneous or consistent sequential presentation of the members of preestablished high organizational units and by consistent simultaneous presentation of arbitrarily selected low organizational units. Simultaneous but inconsistent presentation of low organizational units impoverished performance.
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Supported by a grant from the University of Hawaii Research Council, and based upon Bell’s BA honor’s thesis and a report presented at MPA, Cincinnati, April–May 1970.
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Shapiro, S.I., Bell, J.A. The formation of organizational units in free recall learning. Psychon Sci 22, 217–218 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332576
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