An experiment was conducted with the aim to find which technique of memorising was more efficient, rehearsal or imagery. It was found that imagery of paired nouns produced a higher amount of those words recalled when compared to the amount recalled when using repitition. Paired nouns were given to participants to remember by using either the imagery or rehearsal method of remembering. Results were obtained by giving one of the words to the participant and then asking for it's pair. It was concluded that imagery was a better mode of remembering, although it should be noted that there were uncontrolled variables within the experiment.

Introduction:

Memory is an active, information processing system that recieves, organises, stores and recovers information. It occurs in three stages, encoding; information is converted for storage, storage; information is retained and retrieval; information can be recoverd. If any of these processes fail, information...