In a paired-associate paradigm, stimulus-response pairs were generated from a rule matrix. (Editor)

The present study was designed to examine several features of naive subjects' inference processes in a rule-learning task. Attention was primarily directed toward initial classification biases and the amount of transfer of learning occurring among stimuli within the same truth-table class. (Author/RK)

Sets of pairs for a multiple-item recognition (verbal discrimination) learning task varied in their number of presentations during a single extended study trial. The test phase required old-new and right-wrong (functional) identifications of individual items. Results suggest that recognition of prior wrong items are mediated by frequency cues…

Four retroactive inhibition (RI) experiments involving the AB, AC (same stimuli, different responses) paradigm were conducted to determine whether learning the original list (OL) and the interpolated list (IL) under different color-context conditions (different) would reduce RI relative to learning both lists under the same context conditions…

Past research has distinguished between two alternative representational systems that are used in perceptual learning--distinctive features and schemas. This study examines the influence of short-term memory on the initial utility of these systems and the influence of long-term memory on retention of these forms of learning. (Editor)

In two experiments adult subjects were given a redundant relevant cues concept identification problem. (Editor)

This study highlights some theoretical ideas which should be considered in attempting to assess the degree of abstraction underlying conceptual learning. (Author/RK)

A list discrimination paradigm was used to examine the effects of orienting tasks upon the later temporal discrimination of words. The orienting task involved judgments about the relatedness of the words in a list to some concept. (Editor)

The three experiments reported in this article were concerned with the question of how response factors influence the process of stimulus encoding. (Author)

Using a network of comparisons, B. Hayes-Roth and F. Hayes-Roth found that subjects performed better on adjacent than on nonadjacent comparisons. Results suggested that such networks are processed in a manner fundamentally different from simple linear arrays. Here subjects were required to learn a similar knowledge structure. These results…

A review of some recent experiments suggested that general similarity between words might successfully function as a structural principle for semantic memory. A spatial model based on that assumption is proposed. The relation of this model to network and set-theoretic models of semantic memory is discussed, as is the relation of this model for…

Individual items were tested for old-new and right-wrong identifications following one, two, or four study trials on a multiple-item recognition learning task. The pattern found for functional identifications suggests that frequency cues may be supplemented by other kinds of cues that enhance identifications of items in terms of their prior study…

The present study used a two-choice spatial probability-learning situation (Bitterman, 1975; Wilson & Oscar, 1966) in order to explore the hypothesis that Korsakoff patients differ from control subjects in the way in which they respond to changes in reinforcement contingencies. (Author)