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Winzenz, David; Bower, Gordon H. – J Exp Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Codification, Hypothesis Testing, Learning Processes
Hogan, Robert; Henley, Nancy – 1970
Psychologists and linguists often suggest that empathy or role-taking ability is important in the communication process because it enables a speaker to consider in advance the informational demands of his audience. Despite the vintage of the empathy-effective communication hypothesis, it has never been directly tested. In this study, empathy was…
Descriptors: Codification, Empathy, Hypothesis Testing, Role Perception
Wickens, Delos D.; And Others – J Exp Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Acoustics, Classification, Codification, Hypothesis Testing
Lee, Seong Soo; Gagne, Robert M. – J Exp Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Codification, Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Hypothesis Testing
Wichawut, Chaiyaporn; Martin Edwin – J Exp Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Codification, Hypothesis Testing, Paired Associate Learning, Recall (Psychology)
Salzberg, Philip M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1976
Tulving and Thomson's encoding specificity effect was examined as a function of grammatical class and concreteness of the cues. (Editor)
Descriptors: Charts, Codification, Cues, Experimental Psychology
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Millar, Susanna – British Journal of Psychology, 1978
This research tested the hypothesis that grouping has adverse effects on the recall of tactual shapes but facilitates the recall of tactual letters on the assumption that this depends on different processes. A further question was the relation of grouping to letter recall span (set-size).
Descriptors: Blindness, Codification, Handicapped Children, Hypothesis Testing
Guenther, R. Kim; Klatzky, Roberta L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1977
These experiments consider similarities and differences between classifications of pictorial and verbal stimuli in order to investigate whether the kinds of information used differ depending on the stimulus class. Three hypotheses regarding the information used in picture and word classification were evaluated. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Codification, Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Hypothesis Testing
Roy, Eric A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1978
Describes three experiments which investigated the mechanism underlying memory for movement-extent cues in preselection. Experiment 1 showed that memory for movement extent was better for subjects who were allowed to preselect their own standard. Experiments 2 and 3 examined the role of active movement in preselected and nonpreselected movements.…
Descriptors: Codification, Data Analysis, Experimental Psychology, Experiments
Young, Frank W.; Young, Ruth C. – 1973
Studies pertaining to community growth have dealt with the community's territorial expansion, economy, government's functions, and institutions. Since researchers usually use the dimension that they have been taught (economists use economic measures, and social scientists use sociological measures), two problems have resulted: (1) How should…
Descriptors: Centralization, Codification, Community Development, Community Study
BERLIN, BRENT; KAY, PAUL
THE RESEARCH REPORTED IN THIS WORKING PAPER "STRONGLY INDICATES" THAT SEMANTIC UNIVERSALS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED IN THE DOMAIN OF COLOR VOCABULARY. MOREOVER, THESE UNIVERSALS APPEAR TO BE RELATED TO THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALL LANGUAGES IN A WAY THAT CAN PROPERLY BE TERMED EVOLUTIONARY. THE RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED IN A GRADUATE…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Codification, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests