The effects of recency and repetition on recall latencies

Naming and decision processes in short-term recognition memory.

“…Finally, the finding of strong recency effects in all conditions rules out Sternberg's (1969) notions of an exhaustive scanning process as an explanation of the present results. The data do not rule out the possibility of a serial exhaustive scanning process in primary memory, however, and the suggestion that both primary and secondary memory were involved in the present paradigm seems one satisfactory way of integrating the results with those of Burrows and Murdock (1969), Sternberg (1969), andWaugh (1969).…”

“…A third possibility is that the recency effect illustrates the increasing likelihood of a presentation word being in primary memory (Waugh & Norman, 1965). Following Waugh (1969), it may be postulated that after the test item has been encoded, primary memory (PM) is searched for a match. If no matching item is present in PM, then the search proceeds to secondary memory (SM).…”

Retrieval Time in Short‐term Memory

“…in II). The decrease in recall that is observed with the retrieval of an item from 8M that overlearning an association may result in a marked decrease in the length of time taken to locate it in 8M, and perhaps even in a circumventing of the search process itself (Waugh, 1969). Some (Theios, 1965; Suppes et 1966) have in fact that the effect the transfer of an overlearned item to still a third where it may be even more available than is an unfamiliar association stored in PM (cf.…”