ONE GROUP OF 16 SS (SUBJECTS) WAS GIVEN A RANDOMIZED LIST OF WORDS THAT CONTAINED EIGHT SERIES OF FOUR ASSOCIATIVELY RELATED NOUNS, WHILE ANOTHER GROUP OF 16 SS WAS GIVEN A RANDOMIZED LIST OF WORDS THAT CONTAINED EIGHT SERIES OF FOUR ASSOCIATIVELY UNRELATED NOUNS, AND THE TASK FOR BOTH GROUPS WAS TO WRITE A STORY THAT CONTAINED THE NOUNS FROM THE…

THIS STUDY WAS CONCERNED WITH THE SYNTACTIC RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN WHICH ASSOCIATIVELY RELATED AND ASSOCIATIVELY UNRELATED NOUNS APPEAR IN SENTENCE PRODUCTIONS. TWENTY SS (SUBJECTS) WERE ASKED TO WRITE SENTENCES THAT CONTAINED FOUR NOUNS. THE HIGH ASSOCIATION (HA) SS WERE GIVEN GROUPS OF ASSOCIATIVELY RELATED NOUNS, AND THE LOW ASSOCIATION (LA) SS…

THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC STUDY BEGUN IN 1966 INVOLVING WORD ASSOCIATION NORMS. THE FIRST EXPERIMENT ANALYZED IN TERMS OF FREQUENCY TABLES VERB AND OBJECT RESPONSES TO SUBJECT-NOUNS IN A DECLARATIVE SENTENCE FRAME, WITH THE LIMITATION THAT IT WAS DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE WHICH OBJECTS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH WHICH VERBS. THIS SECOND…

THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO COMPARE CONSTRUCTION AND STORAGE EXPLANATIONS OF THE FACILITATING EFFECT UPON RECALL OF ASSOCIATIVE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WORDS EMBEDDED IN CONNECTED DISCOURSE. ONE GROUP OF 36 UNDERGRADUATE SUBJECTS WAS EXPOSED TO A PASSAGE THAT CONTAINED ASSOCIATIVELY RELATED WORD PAIRS, WHILE TWO OTHER GROUPS WERE GIVEN PASSAGES…

THE RESEARCH REPORTED HERE WAS CARRIED OUT TO EVALUATE THE POSSIBILITY THAT IN THE RECALL OF SIMPLE DECLARATIVE SENTENCES THE SUBJECT-NOUNS ARE EASIER TO RECALL THAN THE OBJECT-NOUNS. SUBJECTS (198 UNDERGRADUATES) WERE EXPOSED TO DECLARATIVE SENTENCES THAT VARIED IN ASSOCIATIVE STRENGTH, SENTENCE TYPE (ACTIVE-PASSIVE), AND THE CLASS OF THE…

THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS A REVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH ON THE RECALL OF ASSOCIATES EMBEDDED IN CONNECTED DISCOURSE AND A DISCUSSION OF THE THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS THAT GUIDED THE RESEARCH. EVIDENCE IS PRESENTED NOT ONLY FOR ASSOCIATIVE FACILITATION IN THE RECALL OF KEY WORDS BUT ALSO FOR A FACILITATING EFFECT OF ASSOCIATION UPON THE RECALL OF CONTEXT…

THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF ASSOCIATIVE CONSTRAINTS BETWEEN WORDS UPON THE RECALL OF CONNECTED DISCOURSE ARE DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE. THERE IS REASON TO BELIEVE THAT ASSOCIATIONS WILL AFFECT BOTH STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL. FOUR STUDIES ARE DISCUSSED IN WHICH WORDS VARYING IN FREE ASSOCIATION STRENGTH WERE EMBEDDED IN CONNECTED DISCOURSE. LEARNING WAS…

THREE GROUPS OF SUBJECTS WERE GIVEN A PASSAGE TO LEARN FOLLOWED BY A WRITTEN RECALL TEST. GROUP HA (HIGH ASSOCIATION) WAS GIVEN A PASSAGE WHICH INCLUDED 16 PAIRS OF ASSOCIATIVELY RELATED NOUNS. GROUPS LA (LOW ASSOCIATION) AND C (CONTROL) WERE GIVEN A PASSAGE CONTAINING ASSOCIATIVELY UNRELATED NOUNS. THE HA AND LA PASSAGES CONTAINED THE SAME…

THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT ASSOCIATIVELY RELATED NOUNS EMBEDDED IN CONNECTED DISCOURSE--AT LEAST IN THE CASE OF ITEMS THAT APPEAR IN THE SAME OR IN CONTIGUOUS SENTENCES--ARE STORED MORE EFFICIENTLY THAN ASSOCIATIVELY UNRELATED NOUNS. A 2X2 FACTORIAL DESIGN WAS EMPLOYED (WITH 20 SS IN EACH GROUP) IN WHICH SS WERE ASKED TO…

LISTS OF HIGH ASSOCIATION AND LOW ASSOCIATION SENTENCES WERE PREPARED FROM CONTROLLED ASSOCIATION NORMS. AN INTRA-LIST INTERFERENCE CONDITION WAS CREATED FOR HIGH ASSOCIATION SENTENCES BY PAIRING THE NOUN PHRASE OF ONE SENTENCE WITH THE VERB PHRASE OF ANOTHER SENTENCE IN THE SAME LIST. A SIMILAR PROCEDURE WAS FOLLOWED WITH THE LOW ASSOCIATION…