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Moeser, Shannon D.; Tarrant, Barbara L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1977
Using a network of comparisons, B. Hayes-Roth and F. Hayes-Roth found that subjects performed better on adjacent than on nonadjacent comparisons. Results suggested that such networks are processed in a manner fundamentally different from simple linear arrays. Here subjects were required to learn a similar knowledge structure. These results…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Learning Processes
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Murdock, Bennet B., Jr. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1976
Deals with memory for lists of items. The literature is briefly reviewed, and the main difficulties for traditional explanations of serial order effects are noted. (RK)
Descriptors: Diagrams, Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Memory
McNeill, David – 1972
On the basis of experimental data, the author makes the following observations: (1) the basic encoding processes in speech, the schemas of order, first produce elementary underlying sentences; (2) underlying sentence structure is the controlling step in the organization of speech; (3) underlying sentence structure plays a central role in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Experiments