procedure - in the lab experiment there were 4 conditions and each condition had a slightly different list of words - Group A (acoustically similar eg. cat, cab, can, man, map), Group B (acoustically dissimilar eg. pit, few, cow, pen, sup, bar), Group C (semantically similar eg. great, large, big, huge, tall), Group D (semantically dissimilar eg. good, hot, safe, thin, deep, strong) - participants were shown the words and asked to recall them in the correct order.