An experimental study was performed to test the hypothesis that physical presence of hooks during either learning or recall is more efficient than relying only on memorized hooks when using a mnemonic system. 20 pictures were used as hooks, and the dependent variable was recall of a list of concrete nouns. Results indicated no support for the hypothesis which outcome was explained in terms of overlearning of the hook pictures.
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