What was group 1?
acoustically similar words, like cat, cab, can
What was group 2?
acoustically dissimilar words, like pit, few, car
What was group 3?
semantically similar words, like great, large, big
What was group 4?
semantically dissimilar words, like good, huge, hot
What were participants asked to do?
recall the words in the correct order
What were results when asked to recall immediately?
acoustically similar group were worse
What were results when asked to recall with time interval of 20 minutes?
worse with semantically similar words