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Stein, Barry S.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
Reports on two experiments which question the assumption that semantic processing is superior to nonsemantic processing, and which demonstrate that effective semantic elaboration cannot be equated with the quantity of semantically congrous information. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Research, Learning
Postman, Leo; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
Reviews recent experimental and theoretical analyses of the relationship between level of processing and retention, and reports on two studies which tested predictions about the effects of orienting activities on retention. (AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Language Processing, Language Research
Ross, Brian H.; Landauer, Thomas K. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
Reports on a study that sought to test theories which predict that spacing between two items to be learned improves the probability of remembering at least one of the items. (AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Language Processing, Language Research
