ABSTRACT
From our vantage point on psychology it seems that more experiments have been run using the list memory paradigm than any other experimental paradigm (for recent reviews see Healy & McNamara, 1996; Raajimakers & Shiffrin, 1992). This is a paradigm in which subjects are presented with a list of words and then are tested for their memory of the words. The test may involve an attempt to recall the words in their presented order, in which case it is called serial memory; an attempt to recall the words in any order, in which case it is called free recall; an attempt to recognize the words, in which case it is called recognition memory; or an attempt to do something involving the words (like stem completion) but not requiring that the subject consciously retrieve these words, in which case it is called implicit memory.
