Following the procedure previously described by Rundus and Atkinson, overt rehearsal was required during the presentation of free recall lists. This rehearsal was tape-recorded and analyzed in conjunction with written recall data. Experiment I considered rehearsal and recall of lists of unrelated nouns. The serial position effect, the order of recall of items as a function of item strength, and the organization of list items by 5 were examined using rehearsal and recall protocols. The introduction of distinctive items into a free recall list affects recall of the distinctive item, items adjacent to distinctive items, and the list as a whole. Experiment II examined changes in rehearsal associated with these recall effects. In Exp. Ill, some items of a list were repeated. Recall of repeated items increased with spacing of the repetitions; an analysis of the rehearsal protocols suggested reasons for this increase. Lists containing both categorized and unrelated items were tested in Exp. IV. Category information was used extensively by S in structuring rehearsal. Clustering in recall was related to the observed rehearsal protocols.

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