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Is there really a time based word length effect.
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Is there really a time based word length effect. It has been found that lists of short words are usually recalled better than lists of longer words in serial recall tasks. (Baddeley, Thomson and Buchanon 1975). This is known as the word length phenomenon, and was discovered in the works of Baddeley et al. Baddeley, Thomson and Buchanon (1975) found that long words take longer to rehearse and produce lower memory spans. Baddeley at al (1975) have shown that the time taken to read words aloud and the successful immediate recall of words are closely related. Many theories have been proposed to explain the word-length effect. These can be generally be "divided into item-based explanations (that attribute the differences in recall between long and short words to properties of the individual items). And list-based explanations where the effects of word length arise from global properties, usually the total duration of the...
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