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Are High Imagery Words Easier To Retrieve From The Short Term Memory Than Abstract Words? Abstract The aim of this experiment was to establish whether concrete or abstract words have an effect on recall. The one tailed hypothesis was "High imagery words facilitates recall in both the long-term and short-term memory. An independent measures design was used. One control group was exposed to a list of written concrete words. The other control group was exposed to a written list of abstract words. Both groups were allowed a sixty second exposure time and then immediately asked to free recall as many words as they could. The results showed a significant difference in the recall of the concrete words compared to the abstract words. The mean difference of group 1 minus group 2 was 2.90. The confidence interval of this difference was 95%. In conclusion, it is expected that concrete words will facilitate a...

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