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Smith, Steven M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1979
Three experiments examined the incidental associations between list-learning material and the environmental context of that list's presentation. The environmental reinstatement effect is that subjects remember more when tested in their original learning environment relative to those tested in a new environmental context. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Context Clues, Environmental Influences, Higher Education
Brown, Alan S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1979
The effects of semantic (S), orthographic (O), and unrelated (U) verbal stimuli on word retrieval were examined. S stimuli inhibited locating items within categories, whereas U stimuli inhibited locating the appropriate category. The discrepancy between the present outcome and the previous finding of S prime retrieval facilitation is discussed.…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Higher Education, Learning Problems, Memory
