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Download full textMarston, Paul T.; Young, Robert K. – 1974
The classic mnemonic for learning serial lists, the method of loci, and its modern counterpart, the peg system, were compared by having subjects learn three 20-item serial lists. In addition to the type of mnemonic training, list imagery was either high (rated 6-7) or medium (rated 4-5), and instructions were either progressive elaboration (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Codification, Comparative Analysis, Cues
Kosslyn, Stephen M.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1976
Investigates whether imagery and verbal encoding use different processing mechanisms and attempts to discover whether the processes underlying the use of imagery to retain words are also involved in like-modality perception. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Codification, Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Imagery
