  Using English words as passwords have been a popular topic in the last few
years. The following article discusses a study to compare self-selection of the
system-generated words for recognition and self-generated words for recall for
nouns and mixture words. The results revealed no significant difference between
recognition and recall of password nouns. The average memorability rate of noun
recognition was 75.72%, slightly higher than noun recall 74.23% in long-term
memory. Also, there was no significant difference between recognition and
recall mixture word passwords. The average memorability rate of mixture word
recognition was 95.23%, and recall was 84.14% in long-term memory. The authors
concluded that the recognition and recall of mixed word passwords had a higher
memorability rate than nouns.
