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Brainerd, C. J.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1980
Two experiments on how symmetrical difficulty factors (word familiarity and concreteness) affect stages of associative learning are reported. Learning parameters reacted in a qualitatively similar manner to stimulus and response manipulations. Paired associate items are represented in memory as unitary traces rather than as separate stimulus and…
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Paired Associate Learning
Monty, Richard A.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1979
It was hypothesized that freedom to choose words to be learned, but not the actual choice of words per se, improves performance in paired-associate tasks. Subjects offered an attractive or meaningful choice performed significantly better than subjects offered an unattractive choice, which was equivalent to no choice at all. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Individual Power, Motivation, Paired Associate Learning