Two indices of verbal relatedness, the Index of Total Association (ITA) and the Index of Concept Cohesiveness (ICC) computed from single-response free word-associations were used to design lists of words presented to Ss for free recall for three successive trials. Amount of free recall and clustering in recall were significantly related to ITA, ICC, and trials. Amount recalled was more sensitive to total association (ITA) than to recoding processes (ICC); clustering was sensitive to both. The recognition of word sets subsequent to list presentation was systematically related to the ITA and ICC of the word sets.
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