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Loftus, Elizabeth F.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1978
1,242 subjects, in five experiments plus a pilot study, saw a series of slides depicting a single auto-pedestrian accident. These experiments investigate how information supplied after an event influences a witness's memory for that event. Results suggest that information supplied a witness after an event, whether inconsistent or misleading, is…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Illustrations
Durso, Francis T.; Johnson, Marcia K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1979
Subjects named or categorized a picture preceded sometime earlier by itself or by its verbal label, as well as a word preceded by itself or a pictorial counterpart. Pictures clearly profited more when the task was naming, whereas words profited more when subjects performed a categorization task. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Language Processing, Learning Experience
