... by the findings of the experiment and they rejected the null hypothesis. INTRODUCTION Information that we may have stored, we can not always recall when demanded. To make it accessible some order must be imposed on the complex mass of information stored in the long-term memory. It must be labelled, sorted and organised in some way. A dominant form of organisation of information being stored is categorical clustering with items being grouped according to the semantic category they belong to. In 1953 Bousfield carried out an investigation on organisation in the memory allowing free recall. He gave participants a list of sixty items to learn, within the list were fifteen names of animals, fifteen names of people, fifteen professions and fifteen vegetables all mixed up together. Participants were asked to recall as many of the words as possible in any order. Despite the categories being all mixed together participants presented them in ...

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