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Download full textFrase, Lawrence T. – 1973
This study investigated subjects' ability to combine and organize information from different sentences, as well as their ability to retain that information. Ninety-six college undergraduates were given three trials to learn the characteristics of ships from a text. Attributes of each ship were clustered together (name organization), or sentences…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Learning Activities, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedFuqua, Robert W.; Phye, Gary D. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1978
The effects of a prose passage's physical structure and semantic organization upon free recall performance was investigated. Passages, describing characteristics of fictitious countries, contained either five or nine paragraphs of varying lengths. Differences in the distribution of materials interacted with type of semantic organization to produce…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Learning Processes
