Two experiments on free recall are reported in which the method of complete presentation was compared with the typical single-item (one word at a time) presentation procedure. Total time was held constant. In Exp. I, there was no difference between methods for either unrelated word lists or categorized lists. In Exp. II, lists varying in approximation to English were presented, and higher recall was obtained with complete presentation for contextually constrained lists. The results were discussed in terms of facilitation of the usage of optimal units (chunks) with the method of complete presentation.the method of complete presentation makes it easier for S to discover more structural information about the input list than does the one-at-a-time method ... [p. 324].