90 Ss were assigned to three groups and tested for their ability to learn and retain in any order three types of telephone numbers: all-digit, prefixed, and mnemonic code. Data showed that the mnemonic coded telephone numbers were learned and retained the best; the prefixed numbers, less so; the all-digit, the least.
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