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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Gen. 2011 Aug;140(3):464–487. doi: 10.1037/a0023810

Table 3.

Correlations Between Cued and Free Recall, IQ, and Accuracy and Median RT for Item and Associative Recognition

Group Measure accuracy item Rn. accuracy assoc. Rn. median RT item Rn. median RT assoc. Rn.
College age IQ 0.656 0.533 0.245 0.313
cued recall 0.775 0.616 0.080 0.129
free recall 0.592 0.454 0.290 0.185
accuracy item Rn 0.687 0.340 0.293
accuracy assoc. Rn 0.300 0.430
median RT item Rn 0.596

60-74 year olds IQ 0.540 0.657 -0.092 -0.471
cued recall 0.767 0.747 -0.003 -0.413
free recall 0.620 0.721 -0.073 -0.532
accuracy item Rn 0.745 0.023 -0.442
accuracy assoc. Rn 0.136 -0.379
median RT item Rn 0.718

75-90 year olds IQ 0.333 0.331 -0.281 -0.387
cued recall 0.388 0.325 -0.152 -0.074
free recall 0.400 0.575 -0.180 -0.275
accuracy item Rn 0.597 0.231 -0.210
accuracy assoc. Rn 0.038 -0.307
median RT item Rn 0.639