The type as related to word used, as part of List A in the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT)

Schmidt M. Rey Auditory and Verbal Learning Test: A Handbook. Los Angeles: Western Psychological Services, 1996.

Participants are presented with a list of 15 concrete nouns (List A). The list was read aloud in the same order five consecutive times. After each reading, a free-recall test of the words presented was given. Participants were free to say the words as they remembered them. After the fifth reading, participants were presented with a distractor list (List B), with 15 different concrete nouns, followed by a free-recall test from List B. Immediately afterward, delayed recall of List A was tested without repeating the list to the participants. After a 20 minute interval, participants were asked again to recall the words from List A (delayed recall). Finally, the final task was orally presenting to the participants a list of 50 nouns, including those from Lists A and B, and 20 phonologically or semantically similar words to Lists A and B. The participants needed to identify and recognize the words that were part of List A.

List A