Delayed recall in history

Studies delayed recall after one year of training, in 107 high school girls. The Ss were asked to state one important fact of American History which they could associate with the list of names given to them. It was found that about 45 % of the answers were correctly given; 23 % were answered with partial correctness; 15 percent were wholly wrong; and 17 % were not attempted. The total compiled efficiency was only 58.5 %. Practically all the imperfect answers revealed confusion. The order of frequency for familiarity for military names correlated highly (+ . 682) with those obtained in Bagley and Rugg's study; however, there was no correlation with civil names.