Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the factors which make it easier to recall a teacher’s name encountered in the past. Eighty undergraduates were asked to recall five teachers’ names from their elementary, junior-high or high school. These teachers and their names were rated for various characteristics. The results showed that the ease of recall of the names were positively correlated with the indices concerning with teacher themselves, such as familiarity, emotional arousal, impressiveness, associativeness, recent frequency of recollecting them, and recent frequency of hearing their names, but not with the indices concerning with teachers’ surnames. The differences and similarities between the findings from this study and previous studies were discussed.
