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Donaldson, Wayne; Bass, Michael – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Describes three experiments conducted to examine the superior retention of related word pairs when the second word in the pair required active construction by the subject. The results confirm the importance of subjects' checking solution adequacy and of associative relationships in recall. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Learning Modalities
