Following study of a categorized list of words, 20 subjects were tested for free- and cued-recall. Order of words within categories was preserved and utilized by subjects in both tests. The results cannot be accounted for by Slamecka's (1968, 1972) or by Rundus' (1973) model of recall from categorized lists, or by a model in which order information is preserved by simply tagging items with their serial position. Data are consistent with the simple hypothesis that subjects learning categorized lists do acquire inter-item associations.
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