The present paper investigates the effect of organizational variables on long term retention of material recycled under maintenance rehearsal. Subjects repeated a series of words as a distracting task, expecting to be tested on the recall of numbers (GLENBERG & ADAMS, 1978). An unexpected test on the recall of words showed the superiority of the recall of organized words, and a significant interaction of organization by time spent in repetition of the distractor material. The present

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... because of the requirement of written, and not oral, repetition of the distractor material, is a more stringent test of the postulated consequences of type I rehearsal according to leve1 of processing theory. The usefulness of the clear-cut distinction between type I and type II processing is put into question. El estudio de los efectos de la repetición, repaso, o ejercicio, según quiera llamársele, ha sido un tema de interés primario para la psicología