An experimenter reads a list of 30 words to a group of participants at the rate of 1 word per second.This is immediately followed by a free-recall test.A second group of participants hears the same 30 words presented at the faster rate of 2 words per second.We should expect that the group hearing the slower presentation will show improved memory performance for the

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The slower rate of presentation allows participants more time to properly encode and store the earlier items in the list, leading to improved recall for those items. However, the recency effect (better recall for items at the end of the list) is not affected by presentation rate.

An Experimenter Reads a List of 30 Words to a Group