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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 1989 Jul;15(4):676–684. doi: 10.1037//0278-7393.15.4.676

Table 2.

Percent Word Recall for Experiment 3 by Subject Condition and Serial Position

Condition Serial position
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
No retention interval
Single 85.2 60.7 46.1 30.1 21.1 24.7 35.5 48.8 74.2 92.9
Multiple 74.6 51.4 36.4 26.6 19.3 23.6 34.1 51.4 73.4 93.4

4-s retention interval
Single 83.3 60.0 42.9 30.8 16.7 11.7 17.5 30.8 47.9 73.3
Multiple 63.8 41.7 30.0 20.4 17.1 14.2 18.3 27.5 50.0 70.4

8-s retention interval
Single 85.0 61.2 43.0 31.0 17.1 10.0 15.3 26.0 36.7 61.7
Multiple 61.7 40.8 27.9 18.8 14.2 10.8 18.3 26.2 36.7 61.7

12-s retention interval
Single 84.0 61.1 45.2 32.5 18.0 12.2 17.0 25.0 29.9 50.1
Multiple 62.9 40.8 30.0 26.2 14.2 10.8 17.1 24.2 30.0 47.9