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Download full textMachiels-Bongaerts, Maureen; Schmidt, Henk G. – 1995
Effects of mobilizing prior knowledge on information processing were studied with 3 groups of 12 adult subjects each. The assumption that activating different kinds of prior knowledge would induce different information processing activities during subsequent text processing (inferencing or elaborating) was tested using passages about fishing…
Descriptors: Adults, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedWilloughby, Teena; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1993
Studied prior knowledge as a mediator of effectiveness of the elaborative interrogation strategy for 50 male and 50 female undergraduates in a learning task. The elaborative interpretation group had significantly greater matching scores on an associative memory test for animal information than the control group only for familiar animals. (SLD)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Familiarity
McGivern, Julie E.; Levin, Joel R. – 1982
A study explored a potential aptitude-by-treatment interaction associated with the keyword method of vocabulary acquisition. This method is a two-stage mnemonic process whereby an unfamiliar term is first transformed into a familiar concrete stimulus and then a thematic relationship is created between the transformed stimulus and the information…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Learning Theories
