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Altani, Angeliki; Protopapas, Athanassios; Katopodi, Katerina; Georgiou, George K. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
This study aimed to examine (a) the developing interrelations between the efficiency of reading individually presented words (i.e., isolated word recognition speed) and the efficiency of reading multiword sequences (i.e., word list and text reading fluency); (b) whether serial digit naming, indexing the ability to process multi-item sequences,…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Word Lists, Reading Fluency, Grade 1
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Durso, Francis T.; Coggins, Kathy A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
Performance on a battery of tests of vocabulary words by 72 college students was compared as a function of whether the prior instruction involved presenting material in an organized or scrambled fashion. Organizing vocabulary words during study facilitated performance in categorizing, processing for understanding, or producing a word. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Definitions
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Samuels, S. Jay; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Mirror-image animal and nonanimal words of three to six letters were presented to subjects in a reaction time categorization task. A significant interaction of Word Length X Block was found for words presented over all four blocks. A shift from component to holistic processing was found for the repeated words. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Reaction Time