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Canelos, James; Taylor, William – 1981
This investigation experimentally examines a networking learning strategy involving an information processing strategy that relates to the internal cognitive organization of to-be-learned information and its effects upon the learning of field-dependents. The learning behavior of field-independents is also compared to that of field-dependents with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Higher Education
Johnson, Craig W. – 1979
Undergraduate students using an imagery mnemonic mediating technique involving "keywords" to learn definitions of thirty unfamiliar words performed better on a 1-week delayed comprehension test, on at least half of the definitions, than those who read and copied definitions. Mnemonic mediating strategies worked better than nonmediating strategies…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Definitions, Difficulty Level
Moeser, Shannon Dawn – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1979
The fan effect (the difficulty in retrieving any one fact after learning many about a concept) occurs only when the facts with repeated concepts are stored as independent episodes. It tells us nothing about the code formed by a pattern of interconnected concepts. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
