Recall of Meaningful Phrases.

Lists of meaningful adjective-noun phrases were presented to S s who were asked for partial recall of nouns or adjectives, whole recall of everything, or cued recall of the nouns or adjectives. These tasks were compared with the free recall of nouns or adjectives. In concrete pairs, cued recall exceeded the other three conditions, which did not differ from each other. In abstract pairs, free recall exceeded the other tasks which did not differ among themselves. The results support the hypothesis that concrete pairs are remembered as unitized images, while abstract pairs are remembered as verbal strings.