... isolated quite room. Group A had no pause between each word and the word list was read out as one long sentence, whereas Group B had a three-second pause between each word in the word list. They were both asked to write down as many words as they could recall virtually immediately after the last word. The investigation showed that a faster rate of verbal progression through the word list, gave a substantially higher rate of recall than when there was a pause of three-seconds between each word. Therefore, the faster speed of progression caused an increase in 'chunking' which in turn increased storage and recall. This was concluded statistically with the utilisation of the Mann Whitney U test, which calculated an observed value of U of 26.5. This was below the p<0.05 critical value for U of 27. So this resulted in the alternate hypothesis of "The faster ...

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