Abstract

Operating characteristics were used to assess the importance of word-frequency and word-length in recognition memory. It was much easier for Ss to distinguish between old and new rare words than between old and new common words. Rare (but not common) words were easier to recognize when they were polysyllabic than when they were not.

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