September 1913
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Recognition memory was tested on five Ss. Twenty words were presented to the Ss who were then asked to recognize them from a second presentation of 40 words. Thirteen different intervals of time were used between the first and second presentations, ranging from immediately after exposure, to seven days later. When recognition was allowed immediately after presentation, 84% of the words were correctly identified, while only 11% were recognized after an interval of seven days. The curve relating memory to length of time interval was similar to the Ebbinghaus curve. Very few incorrect recognitions were made as compared with the total number of correct recognitions, and this did not vary with time interval. Increasing the difficulty of the task by increasing the length of series and the time interval, resulted in a decrease in recognition ability. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)