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Raugh, Michael R.; Atkinson, Richard C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Four experiments evaluate the effectiveness of a two-stage mnemonic procedure, the keyword method, for learning Spanish vocabulary. This method proved highly effective, yielding in one experiment a final test score of 88 percent correct for the keyword group compared to 28 percent for the control group. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Mnemonics
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Asher, Steven R.; Parke, Ross D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Children's communication performance improves with age, which could result from increases in children's vocabularies, changes in their strategies of selecting messages from their vocabularies, or both. Three experiments were conducted to evaluate these explanations. Two types of communication tasks were employed. These data suggest younger…
Descriptors: Ability, Age, Associative Learning, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Katz, Leonard; Baldasare, John – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Phonological coding in printed-word recognition in English was studied by examining the use made of syllable information by skilled and less skilled readers in the second grade and by adults. The results are discussed in terms of an interactive model of reading. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Adults, Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Comparative Analysis