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| Abstract Reasoning | 1 |
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| Higher Education | 1 |
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| Cox, William F., Jr. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedCox, William F., Jr. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1978
To detect the underlying structural relationship or chain among certain memorized pairs, two groups of undergraduates verbally reordered previously memorized pairs of either concrete or abstract nouns. The superior performance of the concrete word subjects was attributed to the differential effect of imaginal versus verbal encoding. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Memorization
