Date of Award
Spring 1972
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Psychology
Abstract
The capacity to effectively reorganize material to be recalled is perhaps the most essential element in the complex retention process (Deese, 1958). A known type of reorganizational procedure which was shown to exist by Boufield (1953) in his investigation of the retention of a randomized word list is the grouping or clustering of associated words. The results of his study clearly indicated that upon immediate recall of a randomized list, related items, that is, items belonging to the same category, are listed together in clusters.
Recommended Citation
Graves, Janet Sanford, "Memory facilitation as a function of category cues and stimulus list construction" (1972). Master's Theses. 341.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/masters-theses/341