This article describes an experiment designed to define the difficulties perceived by learners in verbal learning tasks. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

Study examined the effects of the variables of list length and pronunciation instructions on performance in the verbal discrimination and two category classification tasks and found that the effects of these variables on the two tasks were quite comparable. (Author)

Four experiments examined priming between newly learned paired associates through two procedures, lexical decision and item recognition. Results argue against a functional separation of the semantic and episodic memory systems. (Author/AM)

This paper is a draft for the American Psychological Association Symposium on the conditioning of verbal behavior and attitudes. The author presents the results of several studies he conducted in the classical conditioning of meaning and attitude. These studies attempt to control the measurement effects created by extraneous variables operating on…

A theoretical analysis and a review of the uses of role playing and deception methods indicates that role playing methods are based on a more comprehensive and inclusive conceptualization of human behavior than are deception methods, and that role playing assumptions are better able to account for the empirical findings in research on the behavior…

Discusses the keyword method, which divided vocabulary learning into two stages: (1) the subject associates the spoken foreign word with the keyword, and association that is formed quickly because of the acoustic similarity between the words, and, (2) the subject forms a mental image of the keyword "interacting" with the English translation.…

An experiment designed to test the generality of Paivio's two factor theory of meaning to sentence comprehension was carried out, and two scoring procedures were investigated: a verbatim score in which sentence elements had to be recalled exactly as they appeared in the original, and a substance score in which synonyms were accepted. The subjects…

Reviews recent experimental and theoretical analyses of the relationship between level of processing and retention, and reports on two studies which tested predictions about the effects of orienting activities on retention. (AM)

Reports on research showing that when an event, or a problem, is repeated, the processing of that event is not necessarily repeated. Instead, sometimes the solution is remembered, and this is shown to influence subsequent retention, as well as such tasks as word perception. (AM)

Reports on a study that sought to test theories which predict that spacing between two items to be learned improves the probability of remembering at least one of the items. (AM)

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THOSE WHO HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEVISING TRAINING PROGRAMS IN INDUSTRY BE AWARE OF THE PROCESS OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AND SUBMIT NEW SKILLS TO FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS RATHER THAN IMITATE TECHNIQUES THAT HAVE WORKED IN OTHER SKILLS. THERE IS A LACK OF A SUFFICIENTLY WELL-TESTED SYSTEM OF PRINCIPLES OF TRAINING AND OF A…