He challenged them to try to remember a list of about a dozen unrelated word pairs.

They had 20 young men and women, mostly Stanford students, view in quick succession a list of 240 word pairs.

However, word pairs at the beginning of a list still show better recall.

For example, group 9 in Figure 4included six word pairs.

Among several others, participants might study word pairs such as the following:

The measure of performance was the total errors divided by the word pairs on the list.

The teacher began by reading the list of word pairs to the learner.

If correct, the teacher would read the next word pair.

The choices are a mixture of word pairs and short statements.

Most have a "vocabulary" in the back, usually a hundred or more word pairs long.